E3 Ask Dr Hazel: Best way to structure strength sessions
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🗓️ 18 July 2022
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like? |
| 0:04.2 | Not much to it, is there? |
| 0:06.2 | Unless, of course, it's a Walker's sandwich. |
| 0:10.9 | Mmm, that is good. |
| 0:12.9 | Now that's what Asani should sound like. |
| 0:15.8 | Go all crisp in with walkers. |
| 0:19.0 | Delicious. |
| 0:20.7 | Hey everyone and welcome back to another episode of Ask Dr. Hazel. |
| 0:25.5 | In these five minute episodes, I answer questions submitted by you. |
| 0:29.1 | So let's hear from this week's listener. |
| 0:31.6 | Hi, Hazel. |
| 0:32.2 | I was wondering how you would go about structuring a strength session if you only had time for two sessions a week. |
| 0:40.1 | For example, would you focus on both days as a whole body or would you focus on one day as |
| 0:46.3 | the upper body the other day as a lower body? I'm really struggling to fit in two strength |
| 0:50.9 | sessions a week amongst triathlon training. Thank you. |
| 0:58.5 | Okay, this is a great question. First of all, it's awesome that you're doing two strength sessions per week. That's exactly what we should all be aiming for. So when you say you only have |
| 1:04.9 | time for two, I'm telling you that that's great, first and foremost. I guess what I'd like to know is what other exercise or |
| 1:13.2 | activity you're doing if any and how you're spacing them apart. But basically, here's my thinking. |
| 1:20.8 | You can do either really. If you're able to have a day between the sessions, then the most optimal, |
| 1:27.1 | I would say, is doing full body sessions, |
| 1:29.8 | so two full body weightlifting sessions. If you have to do them back to back, then you can do |
| 1:36.0 | an isolated upper and an isolated lower body session. But that does mean that the frequency |
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