Sentences with phrase «race recovery week»

it's school break, race recovery week, and i've completely cleared my non-obligatory calendar and for once, have zero to - do list.

Not exact matches

Instead, the next chapter you'll get will teach you exactly how to figure out how many calories, carbohydrates, proteins and fats you should be eating, and the final version of the book will include a meal plan that will include, among other helpful details, a plan for off - season, recovery weeks, base building, the last few hard weeks leading up to an event, and the week of your race and event.

Even though I had a great 5k race yesterday and am not sore or feeling sluggish in anyway, I know I need to still think «recovery» for this week.

But if you find yourself injured with an important race around the corner, or really beat up from a tough series of workouts, or at a training camp, or doing a big «deload» week, you may actually want to consider pulling out as many stops as possible, and truly geeking out on recovery so that your body is 100 % repaired.

A deload week is just a fancy word for an easy recovery week, and in the training plans that I write, I typically add a deload week every 4 - 8 weeks, depending on the volume of an athlete, the age of an individual (the older you are, the more deload weeks your hormones, joints and ligaments need) and the training time of year (typically I use fewer deloads during a race season, since an easy taper week leading up to a race is technically a deload).

In two different studies, runners who consumed Montmorency tart cherry juice twice a day for a week before, on the day of the long - distance race and the day after experienced a faster recovery of strength and less muscle pain compared to those who drank a different beverage.