Holy hell I feel like I just had the hardest workout of my life. Borderline puking the last 10 minutes or so. After a few weeks I think I finally realized why workout B is so much harder than A in the MTB Strength Program. Workout B seems to be more unilateral where workout A seems more bilateral. Effectively this means in workout A and B the amount of rest time is the same, but in B the amount of work time is considerably more. For instance workout in Phase 2 workout A has front squats where workout B has bulgarian split squats. The time to do one front squat and one bulgarian squat is effectively the same. In both instances I'm using the most weight I can for the given reps with correct form. In both cases since I am using the most possible weight in similar exercises I would say that I am really maxing out my cardio, but in workout B once I am done the first 8 reps I then have to switch to the other leg without any rest and with my cardiovascular level already working at a very high level and continue another 8 reps for the opposite leg. Not sure if that makes since, but I feel that is the reason because the A workout seem like cake compared to the B workouts.

Aside from that nutrition as been great all day and I've now got 4 solid day of training in a row. I really like doing the intervals on the separate days, and I think that is how I am going to restructure my workout plan. 3 days of intervals/core work and 3 days of weight alternating starting on Monday and ending Saturday giving me Sunday as my rest day. The plan is to keep that up through each phase for 4 weeks and then the 5 week instead of switching to the next phase continue on the same phase but cut the work in half for that week providing myself with some rest and then switching to the next phase the following week. I'm turning the Phases into 5 weeks instead of 4 with the 5th week as a working rest week. Anyway looking forward to the training, and since it is almost February that means only about 2.5 months until I can get on the bike. Cheers.