From Summer training to the new season training

You've just come out of summer training, with not much going on apart from the training itself. You've had time to sleep and eat properly. You've been able to attack the hard sessions and keep the intensity low in the easier ones. Feeling really good.

Now you're heading into the season and things start to ramp up. You've got school or work going on, with other things happening that weren't there in the summer. They start to add up.

My recommendation is to keep a lid on the training, at least for the first week or two. Maybe even longer. You've been used to training with fewer things going on around it, and now there's more going on, it can be more tiring. Adding more training at that point could be detrimental.

Training consistently is going to do you better than getting through some big training weeks.

That first week, or even the first month back, is about finding your feet again as things build up. What does a good week look like now? I'd back off slightly from what you were doing when you had less going on. Give yourself a chance to tick the boxes in training and make it consistent.

Once you've got a couple of weeks under your belt with school or work, whatever is happening, that's when I'd look at whether you're ready to step the training back up.

You need to be genuinely honest with yourself here. I'd want at least two weeks in a row where you felt you could recover well and weren't overwhelmed throughout the week by training or whatever else you've got going on in your life.

Not just getting the training done. Being able to recover from it as well.

Yes, sometimes there'll be a lot going on in a week, or a lot going on in training. You have to be honest about whether that was a one-off or whether it's going to happen every week. If it's every week, you need to be able to back off somewhere, whether that's outside training or in the training itself, so you can keep doing it consistently.