Recovery Week 1st Notice – Minimum Effective Dose

Can you believe summer is upon us? With that comes the second recovery week of 2013. Holey Moley this year is cooking by!

Now is a good time to evaluate where you are with your goals for the year. Half the year is over, which means you should be halfway to your personal, professional and health goals. Take some time to see where you are at and adjust as necessary.

Why Recover?

Over the years I have written extensively on the benefits of rest and recovery as it relates to your overall training and health. Please check out the following articles to remind yourself why you need to back off at times:

Recovery Is Where The Magic Happens

I Hate Recovery Weeks

Rest, Recover and Regenerate, It’s Not Optional

Minimum Effective Dose

I don’t know if Coach John is the one who coined the phrase Minimum Effective Dose (MED) as it relates to training, however I was reminded of it as I read is latest book, “Intervention”.

You see training is not about how hard you can thrash yourself in a given “workout” or how many “workouts” you can do in a month. It’s about getting the training effect you want, in the minimum amount of time.

Why?

Because the less time you are in the gym, the more time your body has to recover. You see you don’t get results from just training, your results are based on how well you recover from your training.

Now that doesn’t mean you don’t train hard when you are in the gym – you should train to the maximum of your ability and according to your training plan. Going through the motions ain’t gonna cut it.

But unless you allow your system to recover, heal and grow, you are just spinning your wheels.

More is not always better!

You don’t need to do 2 a days to get results – train hard, recover, and repeat.

I guess it comes with the territory, but I have always found it strange that because I am a coach people think I “workout all the time”.

Are you nuts?

I am up most days before 4:00am, I have a family, and a business to run. Getting 4 days of training a week is tough enough, what gives y’all the idea I have time to burn all day in the gym? I want to get in, get done, and get out. Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE training, but it is not the only thing on my plate.

And it doesn’t need to be. In the past 8 weeks Nancy and I have trained exactly 32 times, approximately 1 hour sessions, 4 days – just like our Team Training schedule.

In conjunction with S3 we can both say we are in our best physical condition in a long time, if not ever. And we are nothing special, believe me. If we can do it, so can you.

Train hard. Eat right (you KNOW what that means, don’t make it harder than it needs to be) and get some R&R.

Don’t argue, just Make It Happen!

Recovery Week Schedule and Upcoming Dates to Remember

Recovery Week:  June 23 to June 30. Training resumes Monday July 1st.

4th of July:  Exercise Your Independence: All Team Training and Brunch. 8:00am Thursday July 4th at Get Fit NH Concord

Schedule Change: The week of July 8th we will be training Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday due to a training conference. Please make note!