RedShed Rest Day
Enjoy the photos from this week!
Rest Day topic again is about intensity. Scott Semple gives some great advice regarding intensity in CF Journal Issue 34 – June 2005.
Inside this article, you will find great words of wisdom derived from hands on experience. He also quotes Coach Glassman's message regarding going too hard, too fast:
"We have counseled in "Getting Started" and repeatedly elsewhere that the WOD is designed to exceed the capacities of the world’s fittest humans and that starting CrossFit by throwing yourself at the WOD 100% will result in devastating failure. We’ve recommended that anyone attempting CrossFit first get through a month of "going through the motions" before diving in with full intensity – "establish consistency before intensity". Countless bad-asses from sporting and special operations communities, long regarded as bullet proof, have been burned at the stake of ego and intensity." (Greg Glassman, CF Journal Issue 29 – January 2005)
Jakob, If you only have an hour a day maximize the hour. I am in a siilmar situation, so I go all out on the S&CF portion of each day and give what I can to the endurance portion after only a short break. Not ideal, but realistic. I am a single sport runner, so the cost of this approach is only incurred on Tues. If really pressed for time I skip the Tues run and focus on maximizing the Thursday and weekend runs while still performing the S&CF workouts four days a week. It is about priorities, which is what makes CFE great, though I have to cut short my workouts at times I still get the benefits of the program while leaving much more for my paying job than I did trying to adhere to other programs.