Recovery is Key

Just looking over the last post about getting older and it's kinda funny. I'm on Day 2 of a lay-around-on-my-butt "recovery" after six days straight of PT this week.

Decided to hit the Art of Strength Kettlebell DVD in it's entirety on Sunday since Monday would "just" be a trail run. Well, I barely made it through that video. It's 14 different Kb exercises done for two minutes so I wasn't using heavy weight (12kg) but it was a smoker. Had to take a little longer than the one-minute rest in the video a few times. But I got through it and felt really great.

Monday was staff PT with everyone at work so we went to a local park for some off-road trail running. 45 minutes later, I had taken as easy a pace as I could and still felt pretty good. Butt after sitting at my desk all day, I started to feel the Kb workout in my glutes and the hilly long run smoked my legs with all the downhills. Tuesday was my day to torture everyone and I was going to use the Australian 20-meter "beep test" to do it. Luckily, my mp3 wasn't working so I pulled the frisbee out of the trunk and we played a pretty long game of ultimate. Lots of sprinting later, I was pretty much spent. Wednesday was a refresher day of Combatives so it was pretty low intensity.

Wow, make that Day 3 of recovery after 5 days working out because Thursday was Friday. (4-day Memorial Day weekend thank goodness). So for Thursday's workout, we hit some more ultimate since it's my favorite sport-like activity. Unfortunately, as I was setting up a smaller workout on a local soccer field, a group of regulars showed up for their weekly ultimate game and challenged us to a contest. After Tuesdays ugliness, we should have inter-mixed with them but we didn't. Big mistake. Even though we had three subs and they all played the whole game, they beat our butts. But we got in another smoker running workout. Luckily, the boss decided that was enough organized PT and we get to PT on our own the next two weeks (except for Fridays rematches of ultimate frisbee).

The only problem with all that running last week, it makes me uncommonly hungry and any gains I would have made we squashed by my over-indulgence. Burgers, fries, tater tots, biscuits and gravy, and anything else I could stuff my face have left me feeling doubly-worse for my efforts.

I am going to start researching what vegetarians eat. My body could definately use a break from all the garbage...

I did start using a "Strossburg" sock to see if that will help my planter fascitis. I'll keep ya posted to see how that goes. Nothing like rehabing an injury while continuing to run. Dumb, I know. HOOAH as we say in the Army. Means, "damn, that was dumb".

Sorry for the rant, but I felt bad for not writing consistently or with anything useable, but it was a long week at work and we did more fun working out that really killer PT.

I think I will use that theme when I retire and start this fitness thing up for real. "Fun Fitness", taking the "work" out of workout and making your fitness experience FUN. Something like that to attract and retain clients. Very similar to the CrossFit philosophy of a different workout every day, ultimate variety so no one gets bored and their workouts don't get stale.
More on this later...