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Rest Does the Body Good
In CrossFit, or any other training program, it is important to use what Robb Wolf calls "intuitive moderation" to regulate your training load. In other words, you approach each WOD prepared to give it your all but also know when it is time to back off and allow your body to recover.
If you are training daily over long periods of time without sufficient rest, your body cannot regenerate and your performance will plateau. If the imbalance between excess training and insufficient rest continues, your performance will decline. Along with that comes a host of other, more insidious symptoms, among them,fatigue, moodiness, irritability, altered sleep patterns, decreased immunity and depression.
Three days on, one day off will generally keep you out of trouble, but it's also advisable to take more time off every 6 to 8 weeks. A few days off will not diminish your progress, you will not lose the pull-ups or push-ups that you've been working for, in fact, with adequate rest and periodical breaks (3 to 5 days) you will find that you are stronger all around!
More on overtraining:
http://sportsmedicine.about.com/cs/overtraining/a/aa062499a.htm
Annie, enjoy some sweet sleep tomorrow! ;)
thank you Nicole, I already feel better taking today off. the Tumbling class was fun. I think that you would really enjoy it. We worked on handstands and handstands into rolls. We also did back bends down a latter attached to a wall. Anyway, my thought was that it seems like if you went once you could teach these things. They were not so complicated they just take practice. At least that is how it seemed to me.
Annie that is soo cool! You must share what you know! Can't wait to see your moves:)
Candace
GET IT WHERE YOU CAN! My boss is gone all week, so I'm all alone. I just did one armed-overhead presses with our 5 gallon arrowhead water jug. it's only 40lbs, but it sure is awkward. i wish we had 2 full ones so I could do them together.
actually, that kind of hurt. my wrists are sore now. maybe my new goal is to be able to bottom up it instead of letting the bottle dig into the side of my wrists!
Here is my rest/workout scheme (more or less)
week 1-3 WOD, full intensity
Week 4 WOD 50% intensity (very, very easy)
Week 5-7 WOD, full intensity
Week 8 WOD 50% intensity (very, very easy)
Week 9-11 WOD, full intensity
Week 12 OFF
I find this keeps me from getting injured or burnt out. One caveat: If I hit two of the WODs with really full-force effort, I may skip the next or move things about a bit to get two days of recovery or just go 2 on one off 4 on.
It's back squats! Horray! No more 400m running! The next time running comes up I hope they drop a 0 and make it 40m running. I am much better at that. I can run 40's all day and into the night without complaining. As long as there is plenty of rest:)