Saturday, February 12, 2011

changing up!









OK we're on our way to a new season and hopefully a successful one. Your following your training plan or coach with all the workouts designed to progress you to a PR for that A race you signed up for a year ago. As you go through the base phase to the build phase to the peak phase somewhere in there we get tired, burnt out or we just flatten out and wonder why the enthusiasm is fading a little. If your like me you have a family, job responsibilities and priorities that let a little air out of that PR or infinite slot your pursuing. If your in for the long haul your going to need to mix it up a little to keep the fire burning. Going through our progressions and build for the season our bodies adapt to the stimulation and we need to change it up to charge the motor. One way is to switch your training to have active recovery days that your not aerobically beating yourself into the ground. A couple of great workouts that energize your body and can include your family is Stand Up Paddling (SUP)and good old hiking. If you haven't tried paddling yet your in for a amazing surprise. You'll not only work muscle groups that you've avoided but you'll have a smile on your face that sometimes seems to slip away with the rigors of training. The Stand Up Board craze has gone main stream . It can be a pricey investment but a great training tool. You can rent them pretty reasonably at surf shops or local sport shops . Check www. goodcleanfunusa.com in Cayucos or at www. toobs .com in Morro Bay ,CA. Buzz builds a custom soft board that is less that 7 ft. that you can fit in the back seat of your car or SUV. You can carry it around for those days at the beach or lake when the weather is perfect and you want to get into the water. Another recovery day you might want to try is to go walking or hiking at your local park ,trail or community path or better yet go beach combing and take the family along. You'll be amazed how invigorated you'll feel taking a day to step back and recover now and then. If your plan is to live the multisport life your going to need to throw in some options just encase you end up in the sport for forty or fifty years. See you on the roads.