Good evening everybody! It is a regular Tuesday and that means that Thaddeus is writing the blog post for today. Today we had another challenging workout on the board, with a lot of overhead work, some of it while we were breathing heavily. In total, there also was 2k of running, which is a nice warm-up for the upcoming 5k this week.
Those overhead squats have a tendency to enlarge any part of a squat that is not 100% under control. If you have not done many overhead squats before, a session like this today will be mostly practice. Your brain is working really hard to tell all your body parts where to go and when to go there. You are working on coordination, balance and accuracy. And you know what, if you get some decent and deep sleep tonight, your brain will rehearse that movement pattern over and over again during deep sleep to make you even better at it. That's extra gains without sweating!
If you have been (overhead) squatting a bit more beforehand, then today was more of a training session. By that, I mean that you are now working on the tempo of the movement, heavier loads, or moving over a longer distance (deeper squat). In this scenario, you are working on speed, strength power and flexibility. You have earned the right to stimulate your body this way by practicing a lot in the past. It's not only about how hard your training was, and how big the training stimulus was. It is also (or even more) about adapting your body to that training stimulus. And that happens mostly overnight. Yes, you need a decent amount of fuel to change your body, but most of all you need good sleep. Sleep basically is the best and safest performance-enhancing drug there is. All the other ones hardly have any effect, are banned and are often dangerous.
With a little help from our friends we can do more than we can do alone.
Some lovely images of today's practice/training session:
If you happen to see this furry friend, can you get in touch with its owner who is on the lookout for him?
A little household memo before we close off: have you checked out our upcoming Halloween-wod on Friday 29th? Or got yourself a ticket to our Juleball on the 4th of December? If not, think about it!
So have some extra-ordinary good sleep tonight to get those extra gains after a hard practice today, or let your body adapt to the training-stimulus you gave it. Because you chose to show up today, do something that is not easy nor light, you now get to restructure your brain and body. This is how we work day in and day out to become 1% fitter, so we can still help our friends when our hair is grey and when we have a lot of candles to blow out on our birthday cake. All the best, I hope to see you again tomorrow! Thaddeus
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