For the last two weeks I have been trying to make the new Tuesday 9am class, but I have run into the same problem both times. I workout out Mondays in the evening and when I wake up on Tuesday morning my body just doesn’t feel rested enough to go back to the box. I can more aptly describe the feeling in my muscles as heavy, lazy and lethargic, no real soreness (yet). It seems to make sense to me that foam rolling after a workout will probably help, but is there anything else I can be doing/eating to get my muscles ready to work again? …or should I just go anyways knowing that my muscles will eventually adapt to the modified rest period?
Tuesday, March 8, 2011
Restup?
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I'm a firm believer that all the trendy CrossFit things to do, like getting crazy about your diet or foam rolling, are all just complete bullshit. It is all psychosomatic; people who think this stuff helps see results because they convinced themselves it will work. Just a bunch of mental gymnastics.
ReplyDeleteThe only things you can really do are make sure sure you're eating enough both at night and the morning before workout, hydrating properly, and sleeping enough. Anti inflammatory drugs like ibuprofen or (*gasp*) fish oil may potentially help, but more likely the real effect is minimal but they have a greater placebo effect.
Your body should eventually get used to it. You just have to suck it up and force yourself to go in the meantime.
cliche as it may sound: listen to your body.
ReplyDeleteif it is beat up. dont go in. like drywall said, rest and make sure you are eating enough protein and drinking enough water. stretching helps too, whether it is old school or foam rolling.
I guess as one counterpoint to Tom, are you tired because your body is exhausted from the workout or are you tired because it is morning?
ReplyDeleteI'm not a morning person and I hate working out in the morning. I always feel sluggish and terrible and never end up going. But, on those rare occasions that I forced myself to get up and go it, 90% of the time I was fine. I just needed to get out of bed and get the blood flowing and after warming up and I had no problem working out.
If I listed to my body this morning, I probably would have skipped work today and every day.
I agree with Tom. Listen to your body. I think if you over do it, you will be more prone to injuring yourself. Maybe you can slowly start adding in the 9am workouts and see you you feel.
ReplyDeleteDrywall, I am going to disagree w/ you about the diet and rolling. While the Paleo diet may be a bit extreme for some, I do think what you put it your body affects how you feel. If you always eat like crap, you would never know the difference.
As far as rolling goes, I always thought it was like stretching. I could take it or leave it. But over the last month since I have made an effort to roll out the quads, hip flexor area, IT band, back, bum and calves I have definitely noticed a difference. I am not as tight and flexibility is slowly increasing. I think that most of the things we do in crossfit tightens everything so we need a good balance of something that loosens up the tight and helps with flexibility.
Someone made a good point above - are you tired because it's morning and the thought of doing a burpee before noon sounds terrible?! Or are you actually not recovered yet from the previous evenings WOD? I have had a hard time telling the difference in the past because getting out of bed in the morning for me is a process.
ReplyDeleteLike Camey, I too firmly believe that what you eat can affect your performance, energy level and recovery process. Paleo or not.
In addition, hydrations seems to be a common theme in a lot of the posts recently. It's something that I have definitely overlooked in the past and have a new found appreciation for H2O.