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A VNR listener wants to know how he can “listen to his body” while not having FOMO about not training.
He said he feels like he is falling apart lately. He has low back pain, a tweaked knee, & tennis elbow.
He also said he admits to being a bit stubborn & stupid by continuing to train.
Pat & Boz share their opinions on this topic.
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ABOUT PAT:
Pat Sherwood has held credentials up to & including being a Level 4 CrossFit Coach. He worked for CrossFit, Inc for 14 years in various roles including media, health & seminar staff. He is married with 3 kids. He is the owner of CrossFit Linchpin, enjoys ice cream & hates handstand push-ups.
ABOUT BOZ:
Boz started dabbling with CrossFit at the end of 2004 and got his L1 in early 2006. He has coached at:
San Francisco CrossFit: 2006-2011
CrossFit Brisbane (Australia): 2011
Huntress CrossFit/The Tuxedo Social club (his low-key garage-gym ): 2014-2021
He's also worked for CrossFit from 2007-present in various roles on the Seminar team, Education department and the CrossFit Games. "I love this stuff!"
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Personal attestation to your viewer's fear about turning into an amorphous blob by taking rest. I took 4.5 months off from training. And I mean completely off. I was recovering from a nagging shoulder and biceps tendon issue, moved, and adopted a newborn in that timeframe, so my rest was equal parts voluntary and involuntary. When I got back out into my garage gym I tried to be smart about my intensity and loading for the first two weeks, slowly increasing both over those two weeks and what I can say is, my performance overall did not suffer enough to be noticeable, i.e. my 1RM deadlift did not decrease, my power clean did not decrease, my strict pull ups did not decrease. About the only real performance degradation I noticed was my cardio respiratory endurance, but a couple weeks of focused effort between running, air bike, and rower remedied that.
Loved this episode 👏 great advice! I also get the FOMO of missing workouts sometimes, but you’re right that it’s just a workout. Whether you do it or not doesn’t define you as a person.
Great subject ! I am such a fan of Adrian Bozman ! So unfortunate he is not the one in charge of the games this year...last year was a masterpiece 🎉
But always good to learn new stuff and how to tackle some issues
Thanks for a great podcast. This is a more nuanced topic that it initially appears. In my experience a deload week is better than outright rest. Many common chronic injuries, like achilles tendinosis, golfers elbow etc. don't improve with a few days rest. The best way to get over them is to keep moving within a reasonably pain free range of motion and appropriate scaling. Two weeks off will definitely result in detraining and it's not going to cure chronic aches and pains. If I'm injured I always try to move in a way that does not exacerbate the injury. Obviously, this doesn't apply to acute injuries like a hamstring tear or a contusion but for most "niggles", motion is lotion.
I’m a “what if” person especially now I’m getting older and notice longer recovery. It’s like longer I rest I’ll get lazy so I just push through even I don’t feel great. I guess my question is how do I know when to reduce the intensity and load. Is there a threshold in terms of age and the amount of workout and intensity to allow effective recovery? I know there’re a lot of strong masters athletes out there however for me average gym goers I don’t know what I’m doing most times. Thanks
I don't think you can generalize by age, since we are all so unique in terms of other life demands/stressors, and how well we are or are not supported by sleep, nutrition, etc. There are 50 year olds who can recover faster than some 20 year olds. It's more about knowing yourself well, and deciding what other "recovery levers" you will pull in terms of sleep, nutrition, "body workers" (massage therapists, physiotherapists, etc.), etc. I did just listen to an interesting podcast on hybrid athlete training (Marcus Filly interviews Alec Blenis on LGMW), and accepting that you won't always feel "great" but that there can be markers to know what days you should back off.