frank theriault wrote: >On 5/4/07, AlexG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Well, that's not necessarily true. >> >> Somewhere on this intarweb I found a PDF copy of the Navy SEAL >> physical fitness manual and they say that you can lose a significant >> 'amount' (?) of cardio fitness within the span of two weeks if you >> don't train. Stop training for a month and you are right back to >> square 1. ><snip> > >Maybe one is "right back at square one", but my experience (as >recently as this winter (when I was off the bike for about 2 months) >is that it's taken me much less time to return to some semblance of >cardio-vascular fitness (I still have a way to go) than it did last >spring, after having been off my bike from October to April. > >But, who am I to argue with the US Navy?
A month seems too little for being "right back to square 1". I've been laid up with injuries for longer than that without being completely undone by it. And when you do start to train again your fitness comes back much quicker than someone really beginning from square 1. When I tore my tibialis posterior tendon and couldn't run for about four months (just biking & weight training) it took me about 6 months to get back. You can take one week off entirely without losing *any* fitness. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net
