Ain't no rest for the wicked

~ Cage the Elephant ~

When I received my exercise plan from Evo Fitness and saw Week 4 was a deload week I thought "Whaaaat? How can taking a break make me skinnier (yep, was much more focused on getting the weight off then getting stronger at that stage). But David said: "Week 4 is a “deload” week, or a back off week. It’s probably the hardest mentally to do, but your strength and results will continue to grow when you allow this back off week". 

It’s a simple concept very few people seem to grasp or actually give a damn about. You don’t get stronger by exercising, you get stronger by recovering from exercise. You’d think this would be something at the top of everyone’s list of training components…

Apparently the aspects of not training are just as important as the aspects of training. Scheduled training breaks are exactly what they sound like. They are

planned breaks you purposely take from training for the purpose of giving your entire body and mind a much needed break. There are mainly 2 different types of training breaks: taking time off or deloading/easy weeks.

Taking time off is just taking a full week off completely from all forms of weight training or exercise in general. In this case of deloading/easy weeks, rather than taking actual time off from training, you just take some of the “load” off from training.

Struggled to keep on track today foodwise - just was not hungry & for some reason craved fresh, hot white bread with peanut butter & cheese & syrup...

Up again at 4:30 tomorrow morning for the 5:30 WOD. Anyone else have bruises on their collarbones? See you guys next week - have an amazing weekend girls!