Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Wednesday
When it rains it pours... my own personal "resting disorder" has reared it's ugly head again and I woke up this morning sick as crap. I remember now why I hate to rest! I always seem to completely break down only when I rest. I tweaked my hamstring after a rest week and now that I have taken a few days off my immune system has decided to tweak me. If I ever get healthy I'm not resting again :)
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Why the hell does that happen??? I have trained my butt off for weeks and weeks, only to rest after a race for 1 week and the next thing I know I get a sore throat and achy all over! I feel your frustration!
My uneducated guess would be hormones. You elevate them when you're training and then you shut down and everything gets compromised? Immune system seems common to me- I've seen a ton of athletes get sick right before a race after a week+ taper. There's something to be said for a taper that keeps your volume high. Everyone is different but I truly believe that a lot of athletes are better off not trying to peak for a race, rather they should just go in rested. Rested not from a huge reduction in all things training but a simple backing off only slightly in volume and intensity. Keep the ball rolling so to speak.
Cheers
Here is a theory that I heard once and it does make some sense. When you are training on a daily basis you give yourself a "fever". This daily fever makes you an unaccomidating host to the minor little viruses we are continually exposed to and to a certain degree colonized with. So that when your training stops or decreases substatially you do not have the 1-4 or more hrs a day of elevated temperature you then become susceptable.
I've not seen any studies but I've seen anicdotal evidence that if at the first sign of the sniffles you put in a hard workout, that the symtoms subside. However if the bug has a strong foot hold and the hard workout is attempted you may get worse.
brfoot- That makes perfect sense, I'll go with that. Didn't we have a conversation of sorts about this in regards to the sauna?
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