Rest is for the weak… uh, really?
Ok, so I have known this but never really took it to heart. The topic I am about to discuss is recovery. Over this past semester, and probably for the past couple years I have been, as my good friend Sage would say, “The King of doing too much!” Between training for football with the team, and then adding in things that I wanted to try out or to stay good at I was doing around eight or more workouts a week and probably not doing the best at getting my body recovered. Especially when Spring Ball came around.
About two maybe three weeks ago I was doing some Olympic Lifting. I was super frustrated because I wasn’t hitting any numbers that weren’t close to what I use to hit. I couldn’t even Snatch 80%. I tried and tried again, but it felt soooo heavy. The strength coach came out and said, “you need a coach to coach you, your doing too much” He is a good friend of mine, and he knows that I also coach, and so he knows that us coaches can sometimes get a little carried away with our own programs. We see things and try to fit them in where ever we can. I listened to what he said.
What he said resonated with me. I closed my workout journal, put the weights away, and then took the next couple days off. The next time I went in the gym, I hit 90+%. Wow! That felt good. Then I decided to do one program and one program only. That means getting ready for the Olympic Weightlifting meet on May 28th. The next thing I did is follow a program from another coach. This happens to be Coach B’s program. Since then I have felt stronger and my lifts have never felt so good. I’m excited about the meet at the end of the month, but more importantly excited about finally understanding one of Coach’s sayings:
“There is no such thing as overtraining, just under recovery” ~Coach Burgener.
The point is this, make sure your taking your recovery as serious as your training!
