{"id":2604,"date":"2011-07-27T14:37:19","date_gmt":"2011-07-27T20:37:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/?p=2604"},"modified":"2011-07-27T14:37:19","modified_gmt":"2011-07-27T20:37:19","slug":"hey-wheres-my-fing-barbell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/?p=2604","title":{"rendered":"Hey! Where’s My F***ing Barbell?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last night was a special WOD, some good friends from the gym are off to start a new life in a different part of the country. We had a special send off WOD -Grindy- just for them. It was brutal, given that I haven’t really done more than a handful of WODs in the last six months. But I couldn’t bear the thought of not being part of it and I jumped in. I got as close to Rx’d as I could. I only used a band to assist me in the pull-ups. But now it’s time to get serious about my recovery from my Weightlifting competition. <\/p>\n

It seems like I don’t really have a choice either, since I’ve been grounded, for my own good, from my barbell AND anything more strenuous than foam rolling, epsom salt baths and ice packs *for time* for the next three days. When I went into the gym today I was handed a foam roller and lacrosse ball, then was told that, “Friends don’t let friends overtrain.” <\/p>\n

She said this with a friendly smile and all, but, there was mention of having to write “Recovery is an important part of serious athletic training. I will let myself recover from intense training so I can continue to be awesome.” a hundred times on the whiteboard AND if I continued to be stubborn, maybe even some PVC pipe smacks to the back of the knee. <\/p>\n

I think she was joking about the whiteboard and PVC…but I’m not sure I want to test it out; time to take care of myself. <\/p>\n

Are you an athlete? Are you taking your pre-competition and post-competition recovery seriously? <\/p>\n

It’s important. You’ll be even more awesome than you already are!<\/p>\n

I’m not anywhere near being an expert, but this guy is. \"IMG_0783\"<\/a>
\nSo, in the words of Jim Wendler<\/a>, “By not having a barbell on your back twice a week or a heavy load on your spine, your recovery between your workouts will be improved.
\nIn addition to physical recovery, mental recovery will also be improved.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last night was a special WOD, some good friends from the gym are off to start a new life in a different part of the country. We had a special send off WOD -Grindy- just for them. It was brutal, given that I haven’t really done more than a handful of WODs in the last […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2604"}],"version-history":[{"count":37,"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2641,"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2604\/revisions\/2641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atalantarising.surly.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}