March 16, 2010

Man do I hate time changes. I understand the need for them,but it throws my sleep patterns all out of whack and it takes some time before my body stabilizes and I feel rested again. Anyone else feel that way? Most probably everyone! Sleep and rest are 2 of the most important factors when it comes to training and conditioning. Without adequate sleep and rest the body does not have time to go through the healing cycle and repair the damage you inflicted on it during exercise. Yes, I said damage. Exercise is a means for us to break our body down so it can heal and better deal with that stress the next time it comes around. We break ourselves down to build ourselves up. If you don't rest, you don't heal and end up being overtrained. The harder we work the more rest we need. This is not including other factors in the equation such as nutrition and stress, but rest is at the top of the scales when it comes to remaining healthy and training hard. Rest is a big problem that exists in the A-type personality of the CrossFit world. Athletes desire to work harder and faster than everyone else. Of course, this requires rest. Where the problem lies is that most of these people enjoy what they do so much, it is hard to take a day off when that next WOD looks like a good challenge, and the next.... and next.... and next....

In summary train hard, but rest harder!

Tyler was one of the few individuals that managed to guess some of last weeks trivia. I think most of you just didn't try. Here is Tyler's WOD that he wants to do this week.

WOD

10 Rounds for time

15 Deadlift Guys @ 135 Gals @ 95

15 Push Ups