February 10th
REST
From Dutch Lowy’s Site:
Certain Things Are Highlighted In BOLD
I had the pleasure of having a video conference call with a couple hard chargers focused on the CF games this year which got me thinking about a couple topics. (which was super fucking cool by the way). One of which is Hard work. A bit of our discussion focused around things i would consider minutia. Not unimportant but certainly not things that will swing their training to a new level. Things such as supplements, and micromanaging diet. Their argument was that if they can dial in all these little things they will add up to bigger gains in the long runs. This may be true but essentially we can cancel out most of these gains by missing a night of sleep or slipping up at a meal somewhere down the road. Then you are back to the drawing board.
My advice to them and to anyone wanting to improve their fitness specifically but quite honestly this applies to just about everything you can think of was to just work HARDER! Not work More or differently (provided you have decent programming) but harder. Put more weight on the barbell, rest less in a conditioning workout and keep your mind focused.
This can actually go past just the workouts and creep into recovery. I know many of you (you know who you are) show up at the gym on your “rest” day and end up working on “skills” and wonder why the next couple workouts are shitty, i mean after all you took a rest day right?
Rest means more than not starting a clock. It means sleeping, eating and not doing anything. Maybe a little bit of stretching and soft tissue work but with some of you, allowing even that will end up being pretty stressful. So, work harder at resting as well. Be smart and focus on your effort not the balance of saturated vs unsaturated fat in your diet…
