My current schedule is a P90X Hybrid designed to focus on base strength and running proficiency. All my training incorporates periodization (aka Muscle Confusion). I will go for 2 to 4 weeks focusing on a specific skill set or specific exercises and then take a recovery week. After the recovery week, I change what I’m doing and focus on a different skill set and/or set of exercises. That’s exactly how P90X is set up.
Why the recovery week? Here is a short video explaining the theory, but essentially the recovery week is the point in your training when your body is allowed to absorb all the work you have done. It is a time out to allow your body to take the necessary time to assimilate the changes and prepare for something new.
This recovery week has been a little weird for me. I pushed pretty hard working out with Tony Horton on Saturday. We just did Yoga, but Mr. Hero here thought it would be a good idea to go for a 4 mile run on the beach before that yoga session (trying to take every opportunity to run on the beach to get ready for the half marathon on the beach at the end of the Superfrog Triathlon in April). Um…stupid…you are in a recovery week. I was really way too sore on Sunday and then fought off the flu Monday and Tuesday. I did some yoga, stretched and spent some time on the bike trainer the rest of the week.
Today my body is asking me “what’s up? When are we going to hit it again?”. I can just feel it. It is hard to sit still. I have a lot of energy and I’m tempted to go bust out Chest & Back or something like that. The answer is that we get back at it tomorrow. The Saturday Morning ride with the Bicycle Ranch boys. I’ll be on the time trial bike and will work up the hill about 30 miles out to the Towers with the boys and then probably ride back solo to work on my time trial skills. After that I have a short run scheduled. Maybe 2 miles at the most after about 60 on the bike. Just something to start getting working on the fourth skill in triathlon – transition.
So, tomorrow we get back to killing it. Can’t wait. I’m recharged and ready to go.
Dave
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