How many training days per week?

[tribogota]

5 days swim (10-12000 meters a week)
3 days run (1x 30 1x 40 1x 50)
3 days bike (1 long distance, 1 velodrome, 1 spinning)
Ends up being about 6 days a week, but never THAT consistently. If I am tired, I don't care what the schedule says, I take the day off. Last year for 3months I trained 4 days on 1 day off and that really worked for me. This year my schedule doesn't fit that.
I don't do any weight lifting and only occasional core, so it is basically all aerobic. Work tires me out more than training, so when I have extra work, I train less, less work, I train more and less tired.
my two cents

[mama2tri]

I'm training for a sprint. I'm trying to do 6 days a week, 2x each of swimming, biking and running. The swim and run workouts are never longer than 30 minutes. The bike rides are longer, up to 1:30. On weeks when I'll bike and run on the same day, I'll only do 3 or possibly 4 days of training.

[kacie tri-ing]

6 days a week. I take fridays off because I like the rest before the hard weekend.

[Kimmyt]

I usually take one day off a week, unless my body is protesting and then I take more, or if I'm feeling particularly good and then I don't take any off. I try and listen to my body to determine my training volume.

[Bron]

5 or 6. Three in a row is fine, four is sometimes pushing it, it depends on how busy I am otherwise.

Apart from getting tired, the other problem is finding time to other things - grocery shopping, cooking, keeping the house clean and my job. That's why two sessions a day rarely works for me unless I do them back-to-back, either a brick session, or combine cycling with another sport, e.g. cycle to boathouse throwing in some sprint intervals, go rowing, cycling home.

[txred9876]

I am working with a group called Team Survivor and this is my schedule (you can pick and choose between three locations and what they offer). I am working toward my first sprint tri on may 17th. My goal is to FINISH!!

Mon - tri 101 (for us newbies so we don't look like one) 6-7, swim 7-8
tues - spin class - 7-8pm (road biking is so much easier then this class...LOL)
wed - swim 5:30-6:30
Thurs - spin class 5:30-6 and run/walk from 6-6:30
Fri - off
Sat - 7-8am spin or ride outside, 8:30-9:30 swim
sunday - bike outside

I rode apprx 14 miles yesterday!!!! (concidering I am very overweight...and had not been on any bike in 20+ years....and only been at it about 6 weeks....each time I go out I try to add another mile or two). Normally I had been going to spin calls and walking on Thursdays but it cleared up after several days of rain and was WAY to nice outside to go do an inside class!

All is well with my schedule... I am always tired no matter what I do (I think it is due to some of the medicine I am on).

Tina