How Do You Manage Load and Recovery?

Since I’ve started the burpees and high rep BW, I’ve found my time in the gym decreasing massively.

I’m in for 2 lifts and straight back out. 15-25 mins max.

To be brutally honest, the gym is starting to bore me a little

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It’s a big, bright world out there!

Soon you’ll be pulling the sled!

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How can you overeat? That just means you recovered really well.

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If you’re not in marketing, you should be!

I am serious. What’s the issue?

I’m just a little way into this one, but here’s great stuff already.

Ed say; Build a base. Make everything strong. Don’t let your strengths get to far ahead of your weaknesses. You can’t be at Max Strength all the time.

Stu says; injuries occur when your rate of tissue breakdown exceeds your rate of tissue repair.

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I think this is a common theme. I haven’t added any more time in the weight room (still at three strength-based sessions a week), but I’ve added more swings and burpees and kept conditioning up.

And this is true as well. I have even started to swap out traditional barbell supplemental work for weight-vested circuits - or even WOD-type work - to round out my strength days. It seems that my body is telling me what it needs in order to keep it primed for the type of workload I’m asking it to do.

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Ha, no issue. I’m just unhealthily obsessed with not gaining fat. Guess how successful I’ve been in getting stronger? Like I said, it’s one to know and another thing to do.