WOD 03.24.10

Mar 23, 2010 CrossFit WOD
Posted by crossfitproper

“The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can’t get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.”  - Edgar Watson Howe

The energy at the gym has been great. I can tell everyone at the gym is really pumped up and ready to work hard. People are hitting PRs, everyone is striving for the Rx’d weights and movements. Plus there are a bunch of people getting through workouts with all pull-ups, which is awesome! With all the excitement that is happening in the box lately it is pretty common to skip a rest day. Although I love everyone coming in and hitting workouts hard, you HAVE to take rest days. Believe it or  not, it is just as important as coming to workout. CrossFit messes your body up pretty bad, so the rest days are absolutely necessary.

Also to keep that high intensity during workouts, rest days are a must. You can not perform any where near your max capacity after 3 hard WODs in a row.Thats why the 3 days on / 1 day off schedule is prescribed.

Day 1: Max intensity
Day 2: High-Medium Intensity
Day 3: Low intensity
Rest Day: Rebuilds body and muscles for High Intensity on Day 1 Again.

If you simply never rest, your body stays in that low intensity range, which is what we do not want in CrossFit!!

The consequences of taking a rest day could be as simple as getting slower times, but it also can reverse the effects of working out like loss of strength and speed. Over training, for example is bad if you want to get stronger and faster because your body never has a chance to recover. Although active rest is always a great thing, sometimes everyone should take a 100% solid rest day of doing nothing. It’s refreshing I promise!!

Rest should be just as important as working out.

What are your thought on rest? Post it to the comments.

WOD

Rest day.