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.
Open Schedule Note:
Whatever you decide to do today, make it restorative. I’d like everyone feeling fresh and ready to hit 18.3 tomorrow. Please use today to mobilize and visualize for the Open. If you need help with visualization, then check out some of Dr. Heidi Barkers visualizations here
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The goal for many of you this Open is to control anxiety attached to the Open. Channel whatever nerves you may have into positives and use those nerves to be focused. There is no need to obsess over a workout but, instead, visualize the workout (once announced) and visualize yourself executing the workout. This will help calm your nerves.
The workout will be posted tonight but later then our usual 6:00 pm PST as we will be uploading strategy notes for the workout. Stay tuned. 🙂
Went in and made up the previous workout based to 18.3. Mobility, activations, warm ups are all done. B. Tall Snatch x 1 rep 65/65/65 High Hang Snatch x 2 reps 82/82/87/87/92/92 High Hang Snatch 95/95/95 These are pretty good. Feeling stable at the bottom position. Followed by… 4 rounds, of: Snatch 115# 1 rep + 5 OHS Snatches are NOT pretty at all. OHS got 3/5/5/3 reps. Nichole, do you think I should clean, back rack, and then snatch balance for 18.3? 1RM clean 165#. 1RM snatch 127#. B. Two sets, for time, of: Row 800 Meters – around… Read more »
Swim workout today
Spring cleaning mode and a saw fell on my ankle while cleaning storage shed ?. Honestly it didn’t hurt bad at the time. But later after I sat a while and got back up, I could barely walk. Prior to 18.3 announcement, I joked that of course we would probably have double unders. Just hoping it doesn’t get worse and I can do the workout prior to Monday.
Ice, rest, and Ibuprofen
Oh no Theresa!! Get better soon – you’re making the best call by waiting until Monday to tackle 18.3! Keep us updated with how your ankle feels over the weekend!