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…
February 9th, 2010 at 9:23 pm
Someone remind me not to show up the next time we have wall ball brupees!!!! Kicked My Ass!!!!
February 10th, 2010 at 1:54 pm
Ya Dutch! I like that!
February 10th, 2010 at 2:29 pm
Then, why do some days we have “active recovery?” Troy and I r meeting to do Angie 1.5 tonite if anyone wants to join, we both missed
February 10th, 2010 at 2:42 pm
Heather, Its all right up there in the article, I’ll copy and paste the part that means active recovery:
“Maybe a little bit of stretching and soft tissue work”
And active recovery should be done every rest day, not just when I post it….
February 10th, 2010 at 5:15 pm
Interesting article. How do you apply that to those of us that have to work, and miss occasionally? If we go in and make up our missed WOD on a rest day, we end up doing 4 on and 1 off. Does this throw off the balance to a point of losing instead of gaining on the cycle?
Shantelle- new shoes $100, inserts $35, feet not hurting at all while on the treadmill… Priceless. Thank you for the help.
February 10th, 2010 at 6:47 pm
Im very corn-fused. So does this mean we shouldn’t be coming in on off days?
February 10th, 2010 at 7:34 pm
Pink, if you missed a workout, that means you had a rest day, no worries..
Theres no black and white answer here, so I apologize for the confusion. I thought it was a great article so I linked it, and Dutch is the man
Marty, if its throwing off your intensity of your class workouts and ur feeling burnt out, its definitely the culprit…
February 10th, 2010 at 9:27 pm
Thanks for the article Jared. I have been trying to figure out how I am going to fit all my “extra workouts” in so I can accomplish my goals and not get burnt out. And I think this article is right on.
Marty- Christy O always told me to listen to my body. There have been times I havent and Ive paid for it…
February 10th, 2010 at 9:50 pm
Sara nailed it, you have to listen to your body. The more you train the better you become at listening to your body. Beware of the mind, sometimes its a pussy and tells you not to train and sometimes its too gung ho and causes you to overtrain.
February 11th, 2010 at 12:13 pm
So…. go hard or go home? Got it;)