DAY TRAINING CYCLE?
Q. You wrote in Challenge Yourself that you had started doing a nine-day training cycle (weights on day 1 and aerobics on day 6), and that you were using three different whole-body weight workouts, repeating each workout only once every 27 days. How were the results compared to your previous routine where you did weights and aerobics every seven days, repeating the same workout every two weeks? A. I’ve reverted back to a seven-day cycle. The experiment with a longer training cycle didn’t pan out for several reasons, but I learned some important lessons in the process. First, on a purely practical basis, training on a nine-day cycle and constantly changing the days of the week when I train was even more inconvenient then I had expected. It’s much easier to plan the rest of your life when you train on the same days each week. A nine-day cycle played constant havoc with my schedule. It just wasn’t worth the trouble. But that wasn’t the main reason why I changed. My workouts went fine on a
