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Happy Monday! Thanks to everyone who joined the Zoom call on Thursdays. We discussed setting up zones, the importance of easy training, and more. You can see the video here. As you dive into your third week of training you’ll likely notice some fatigue - slight or more pronounced - and that’s OK, in fact it’s intended! We aim to build the training programs such that you gradually accumulate fatigue in the body but then slide into a rest block in time such that you can absorb that fatigue and develop adaptations to it which make you stronger. This concept of applying sustained stress in order to create a response is a tried-and-true method of training for both endurance and strength. However, if you are feeling fatigue which is limiting you from getting out the door, or really decreasing motivation, or making you quite muscularly sore, take a break! Start with a day off and see how things feel the following morning; oftentimes we just need a brief reprieve to bounce back. But if there’s any question, post in the Slack channel and we’ll be happy to help you navigate through it. Lastly, with many/most of us transitioning from winter skiing to impact-laden running, it’ll be important to attend to your joints and tendons as they learn to absorb the forces of running without incurring injury. We’ll dive more into this topic and strategies in our next Zoom call, but for the time-being, check out the handy Happy Hips video linked below for ways to maintain mobility in those crucial hinge-points of our bipedal movements.
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