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Which led me to the question that so many of my clients have come to me with in the past:ĭo you really need a deload week in your training? I was a mess! My body, the same with everyone else’s, is designed to move. I couldn’t hold any position, mobilizing felt impossible, as everything was bound up and tight.

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My body wasn’t cooperating at all, so I didn’t do much.Īfter a full week off I returned to the gym ready to start things up again. Ok, so I got a little antsy after the first 4 days of watching people train and I tried to snatch heavy. I literally did nothing for a whole week. And that’s how my rest days became active and my body learned to recover.įlash forward to the week after my Regionals: season is over so it’s time to reassess goals for the coming year, make my CrossFit New Year’s resolutions, eat whatever I want (chocolate chip pancakes and cinnamon rolls?), and take a nice break from the grind of my normal training schedule. That’s where my coach Jesse came up with the plan to at least jog or row and then work my way through a smashcon™ in which I chose 3-4 exercises that I hit for 2-3rds. While I needed a rest day to recharge my system, it was doing me more damage than good to take a full rest day. If I had a day with no training and no movement whatsoever, my body would not be happy. Throughout the year of training, my coaches and I discovered that my “rest days” needed to be on the more active side in order for me to recover and come back to the gym stronger the next day.

A testament to my level of conditioning as well as my daily recovery process, I felt better and better as the competition went on despite the inevitable effect 7 workouts would have on my body.

Still, I found myself better prepared over the course of the 7 events and better recovered from day to day than I ever have been before. The CrossFit Games NorCal Regional – a 3-day competition that was one of the toughest combinations of movements and workouts I’ve experienced since I started competing in CrossFit in April of 2009. So technically speaking, my CrossFit competition season just ended.

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