A Note To My Athletes On Recovery
Below is a note that I sent my athletes today. I thought you could all benefit. Recovery - As driven individuals, it's easy for us to all focus intensely on getting every single training session done. "Did I hit the watts? Did I run fast enough? Did I go long enough? The above are all things that I hear or have thought, more than one time. While it's important to push hard, focus on the intervals, etc during your "key" training sessions, it's just as important to be as focused on your recovery. An analogy that works well for people is to view a key workout as Point A and view your next key workout as Point B . The objective for you as an athlete, MOST of the time, it recover as well as you can between those training sessions. If you arrive at Point B with more stress and fatigue than you are suppose to have, your session will either not go well, or you will see the effects down the road during subsequent key workouts. I bel