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.
Yeah…I did nothing today. 🙂 Like…nothing. 🙂 Oh, wait, I sat on the couch and used my PureWave. 🙂
Recovery and skill row session:
250m every 2 mins for 28 mins/3500m:
20 strokes per min
22 spm
24 spm
26 spm
28 spm
30 spm
32 spm
34 spm
32 spm
30 spm
28 spm
26 spm
24 spm
22 spm
NB: trying to fix poor posture in the catch. Less forced reach forward – tighter back.