Will I have enough glycogen on this schedule?

[Zeniues]

I noticed Kiefer talks about training in the book as if it was done on consecutive days, but my training looks like this.’

Monday – Lifting
Tuesday – HIIT 30 mins or steady state running
Wednesday – Lifting
Thursday – HIIT 30 mins or steady state running
Friday – Lifting
Saturday – Off
Sunday – Off.

My concerns are two-fold.

1) Will the HIIT / steady state running deplete my glycogen stores and impact the performance of my lifting sessions? I do the HIIT / steady state running because I’ve got a kidney condition and heightened blood pressure that I need to lower.

2) Will having two consecutive off days, saturday+sunday make my training suffer monday? Another one of the reason I’d prefer not to backload on sunday off-day is the kidney condition which was caused by hammering unhealthy carbs every day for years – which is why I currently prefer only carbing 3 days a week and having 4 days of rest for my system.

Lifting is where I care about performance, the cardio is just for my heart and my blood pressure, so lifting performance is what I want to optimize, the cardio can suffer as much as it wants – it’s irrelevant really, the point of that is to condition the heart and lower blood pressure and arterie clogging.

Thoughts, suggestions?

[Makoto Tomizawa]

I think it depends on what type of training you’re doing (volume, full body vs. split, etc…). But if optimizing your performance is your priority, then maybe just do some low intensity cardio on off days as to not interfere with your performance. Like light bike or treadmill walk at an incline or something.
Whether to backload on Sunday evening is totally your call, and you’ll just have to figure that one out for yourself. Try it both ways and see how much of a difference it makes. I think you’ll be fine, as long as you backload on your Friday session. Those glycogen will still be there on Monday.

Training Log: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1vuwHRdBaPVILxxLhXly_N1Ys66Hcwk4j-bM7nvKSLrI/edit?usp=sharing

[Zeniues]

Thanks, i’ll try out and see how it goes. I can’t really cut down on the cardio intensity since essentially getting my pulse up is what I need from it, but I figure, 30 minutes of HIIT can’t be that bad.

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