Continuum Performance Center

Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Recovery


As you know, the coaches here at CPC consider most of you athletes and train you as such. You're not doing 6-minute Abs, Buns of Steel, or whatever other garbage is out there. You have a periodized program, catered to your limits/potential, and actually are encouraged to fail. The point of this? 

How many of you recover efficiently enough to benefit as much as you should and avoid injury? The frequency and structured intensity that some of you are exercising at is damn near the same as professional athletes. So why the hell do you think it's ok to come in 15 minutes early and sit there talking? Or leave without PROPERLY cooling down? It'll catch up to you; trust me. 

So next time you think it's ok to skip the rolling, say the Trigger Point rollers are "too much", or roll around on the black rollers for thirty seconds; ask me or any other coaches how we feel when we "don't have time" for proper recovery (especially me). Think about it - workouts are 60 minutes of hell and you cool down for 3? 20:1? Ask Geoff to make your next bootcamp a 20:1 work to rest and see how you feel. 

- CW 

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