How much fitness lost

about .0000000001 percent, not an amount that you should notice

Do you mean lose?

Yoose can looose fitness if yoose chooose tooo snooooze fooor twoo weeks.

Depends how tired you were. I recently took 14 days off and lost very little fitness.

I had a groin injury and decided to let it heal completely. I am going to test it out today; what would be an appropriate distnce to get back into good training?

Test it out by starting slow and building up the pace over a medium distance. Any pain, STOP and walk/jog back.

big fitness loss starts at 3 days off.

?a? wrote:

big fitness loss starts at 3 days off.

What do you mean by big?

?a? wrote:

big fitness loss starts at 3 days off.

Not after a hard race or training session it doesn't. Also fatigue accumulates, and time off can make you feel like a new runner.

Sometimes you can lose fitness and gain freshness so that you are running better after time off.

This is true. After I take some off (a couple weeks or so), I may lose a slight amount of fitness but its made up for with freshness. Time off is good. I can't believe Kboys has never taken for than 2 days off. You could stand to take more than 4 days I'm sure.

Taking 14 days off completely from running, after averaging 90 miles a week for 2+ months?

How much fitness would/could one expect to lose, not to mention how long do you think it would take you to get back to 8:15 3k shape (which you ran a couple of days before taking the 14 days off)

Thanks

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C'mon.....

Impossible to answer, it depends how tired you are. Sometimes you can be so tired that you need 2 weeks or more to recover.

During my 14 days off recently, I was walking every day. My resting heart rate was falling constantly, suggesting that I really did need the time off.

redmeansdead wrote:

This is true. After I take some off (a couple weeks or so), I may lose a slight amount of fitness but its made up for with freshness. Time off is good. I can't believe Kboys has never taken for than 2 days off. You could stand to take more than 4 days I'm sure.

This is true up to a point. For 10 days, your VO2max falls very little (most of this is reduced plasma volume which recovers quickly) and you can actually be better off due to improved muscular strength and quickness (which is why peaking works). It's not uncommon for people to taks, say, a week off between indoor and outdoor seasons, between xc and indoor, or during a tired period during hard training without any appreciable effect on race times (often this is beneficial).

But if you take off more than 7-10 days, your aerobic capacity will fall off more quickly and it will take considerably longer to get back.

If you're tired, time off is an essential part of your training. Rest is often left out of the training equation, leading to staleness, fatigue, and injury. But if you're not tired, as a general rule it may take you about two days for every day off to recoup lost fitness. So if you take four days off in about a week you'll be back to normal. This is just a rule of thumb. Different people respond differently. So take that time off. In a week you'll be flying again,

That's cool

According to Galloway you can take five days off with no excercise at all and lose nothing. However at about 7 days I think you lose about 10%. So you have lost just about nothing. In high school I got bronchoitois about a week and half before the district xc race. I layed in my bed for about 4 days and drank juice. At the district race I ran a personal best for the time (16:32) by nearly 30 seconds and qualified for the state meet. So I think Galloway is pretty accurate.

Awesome...so 10 - 15 days probably would equal like 20% or so...which I assume you could gain back in another full month of training eh?