Overreaching Reset and Readiness Rebuild
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When the Power or Event block cooked you: a Recovery goal to deload, restore Zone 2, and use Whoop/Garmin until easy is easy again. Then choose the next category.
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Functional overreaching is planned. Accidental overreaching is a stack of group rides, bad sleep, and a coach you ignored. Either way, the next primary should be Recovery for 2–6 weeks: restore the ability to complete easy rides. ChatGPT will “push through.” Connected to Garmin, Strava, Whoop, and intervals.icu, and dying interval files are the evidence. wanted easy dominance; you accidentally deleted it.
Polarized vs threshold distribution in endurance athletes
Progression, medical clearance, and exercise prescription principles
Save a Recovery goal: “restore easy aerobic riding and sleep, then decide.” If you leave the Event as primary, every rest day feels like guilt. Adaptive plans need permission to be easy.
Z1–Z2, shorter than you want, cadence comfortable. No tests. No “just a little sweet spot.” Strength can stay light or pause. Alcohol and travel are lifestyle flags; they count.
Duration can grow before intensity returns. That looks like a volume baby-step, still labeled Recovery so nobody sneaks in 30-30s.
Keep reading. What you actually ride is the core. Sibling guides and Goals in N+One keep the thread.
Sleep improves, easy power or HR at a given pace looks ordinary, mood is less brittle, Whoop/Garmin stop screaming. Then pick the next category on purpose — often Habit floor plus a modest Power or Event, not an immediate peak.
If symptoms include persistent illness, depression, or pain, this is clinical. Stop self-coaching the “grind.” Recovery goals are not a treatment for non-functional overtraining.
Two to six weeks after a cooked block, no injury.
Save a Recovery goal, connect Whoop or Garmin, and ask for the next easy session. The Next Session can be a short spin. That is still coaching.
Drafted with AI assistance and reviewed against N+One quality standards. This is training education, not medical advice.