Basically, his idea he gave me was instead of staying strictly within a 7 day workout week, he suggests I extend my workout week by however many days I need. Depending on how I feel, sometimes I might have a 7 day workout week, sometimes 8-10 day workout week, etc. What do you all think?
I base my workout on how I feel and I normally feel like taking atleast one day off a week.
I know. What I meant was, normally in a “week”(7 days) I will work out 3 times. But usually I dont feel good during one of those workouts. So basically under my friend’s idea, I might work out 3 times in a 10 day period, sometimes I’ll work out 3 times in a 7 day period, etc. So therefore, the order of my workouts will be the same, but the interval between them might be different.
Think thats a good idea?
There has be a thread here before about microcycles being greater than 7 days.
If you can and feel comfortable doing say a training week of 10 days it will work.
I generally use a week as the base of training, but sometimes will make a training week 14 days.
Heh, didn’t know it was called microcycles.
Do you think its fine to often make a training week over 7 days?
ive been doing 8 day workout plans for 2 years now
That is what sucks about the 7 day week (It’s an odd number)
I know LOTS of guys doing 8 day micros 
Yes it is a better plan than following a seven day week, if you can.
Seven days works out perfect for me. I go one high-intensity day (usually monday) two tempo/regeneration days, then another high-intensity day, followed by two or three tempo/recovery days for the weekend. Starts again on monday.
So it sounds like it is a pretty good idea then!
Elars- I do 3 intense workout days in one “cycle” though.
Yeah if you can do it. It can work. From my understanding a microcycle can be from 2 to 10 days - maybe longer. They tend to be longer during the competition season.
I have found I can do 5 high intensity in 14 days. Which means I can really only do 2 in 7 days.
The rest of the world may fit their working week into 7 days but that doesnt mean to say you have to for your training. it does however cause some practical implications with when sessions can be done due to facilities etc. many athletes like to be quite regimented in their training which helps them feel they are getting somewhere - sometimes a 10 day cycle can throw this right off as you never do the same thing on a given day - this might be a good thing for many tho in tersm of staying fresh etc…
I don’t have any limitations or problems on any day of the week currently, and can always accomodate. I’d rather just get a successful cycle done then fitting in 3 workouts in 7 days and having one or two of them suck, when I could have quality workouts every time(3 workout days in 8-10 days)