Every athlete needs to assess how they are feeling today. Assess how your body has responded to Monday-Wednesdays sessions and either do the following:
1 – Take a full rest day. If this is the option you choose, then you are not allowed to feel guilty for not going into the gym. Resting is crucial to advancement in your training so if you choose to rest then have no regrets!
2 – Mobilize.
Use your regular training time to mobilize. Find your problem areas and spend some time focusing on those areas.
3 – Active Recovery.
This could be swimming (you can find our free swim workouts on our Competition blog
every Thursday), doing a trail run, a low intensity row session or a 30 minute tempo run. Whatever activity you choose to do should be a restorative activity and not deplete you for the remaining week of training.
A. Back squats from yesterday–all at 165#– at first thought it was 155 as that was the plan, but couldn’t add apparently today
B.Emom: Again, followed my patterned of not reading closely and did 18min: subbed first minute of double unders for 5 wallballs to cut down on jumping, 2nd minute completed as written, then third minute thought it was 8 instead of 10 burpeebox jumps
Oh well, completed some work today!
Yesterday’s programming
A. 400 m row 5 mus 1:43/1:45/1:50
B. Up to 295# felt real good. Nice to be pushing a little heavier again. Definitely more in the tank but being smart about it.
C. 26/25/25/25/30/26/30 secs slower rds due to trip up
25/30/24/25/26/26/25 secs
27/27/28/24/24/24/23 secs
Completed this week’s optional training on SkiErg:
30 minutes of 30’’ ON 30’’ OFF (140m)
+
4x(500m R:1’ + 500m R:3’) (1:45 – 1:53)