Recovery is important. No, it's more important than that; it's essential. Unfortunately, from reading various forums and blogs it's clear that a lot of people don't pay enough attention to it, and certainly don't do enough of it. Surprisingly, a number of people who, in my humble opinion, do insufficient recovery actually have coaches telling them what to do, and I find this, at best, surprising, and at worse, incompetent.
Following my hard bike ride on Sunday my week so far has consisted of:
Monday - Absolutely nothing, complete rest.
Tuesday - 20 minutes easy.
Wednesday - 67 minutes easy.
Thursday - No formal training but a day of low intensity activity.
I will start to pick it up on Friday and aim to complete a decent LSD ride on Sunday; update in due course.
3 comments:
You can't mean me?!
I have noticed this as well, some trainig logs blogged about recently just seem mad.
Recovery is when your body repairs and gets ready to work again, cut that short and you are in trouble may be not immediately but it all adds up!
If the cap fits ...
Not specifically Sags, I just think people need to recognise that rest is training, as that is when the body heals and makes itself stronger. Once people get their head around this aspect it's easier to rest and not feel under pressure (usually self induced) to train longer and harder, that is counter-productive in the long term.
Rest well.
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