Kerry warned me about this.
And apparently I forget sometimes that I am 39 (40 this July).
I severely overtrained my legs in March in my quest for our team yardage record. He told me that I might not recover for our Pac Champs (I didn't), and I might not even recover for Nats (obviously I didn't). I was ok, not great, for 50s and 100s. But anything over a 100 and I was toast as my legs were just non-functional.
I am not complaining/making excuses, for 2 reasons: I achieved my goal and broke our team record, and two, the meet is over and I need to move on.
But my question is this: how do you recover o/t legs? I've looked at a lot of sites and haven't seen any good ones, a lot of body building stuff too.
I wanted to start running today, but I don't want to dig an even bigger hole than the one I'm in.
I've never overtrained anything, so this is new for me. All suggestions are welcome.
Stretching- how often?
Massage- how often, type?
Other?
Kirk is right. This was all totally self-inflicted upon myself. My sets consisted of 1000s. Usually, 1000 s/ 1000k/ 1000p/ 4x500-4x400-4x300-4x200-4x100s, and all with fins. It was all horribly unimaginative and excruciatingly boring. I didn't complain too much to my hubby, but when he'd always ask how it went I'd say, "It's just SO boring." I did continue to do our WCM workouts once/day, so that was no fins, business as usual.
Working full time and not wanting anything to suffer at home, I had very limited time (2-4 hours depending). My last day I was so far behind I swam 4 times, totalling 19,150y.
Make no mistake, I am never doing this again. This was a "let's see if I can do it" type of thing and now I have, so I'm done. :D I completely underestimated the toll it would take on my legs. Arms are fine, legs not so much!
I need to see how much money we have currently, but I did find an ART person in Walnut Creek who has already gotten back to me.
Kirk is right. This was all totally self-inflicted upon myself. My sets consisted of 1000s. Usually, 1000 s/ 1000k/ 1000p/ 4x500-4x400-4x300-4x200-4x100s, and all with fins. It was all horribly unimaginative and excruciatingly boring. I didn't complain too much to my hubby, but when he'd always ask how it went I'd say, "It's just SO boring." I did continue to do our WCM workouts once/day, so that was no fins, business as usual.
Working full time and not wanting anything to suffer at home, I had very limited time (2-4 hours depending). My last day I was so far behind I swam 4 times, totalling 19,150y.
Make no mistake, I am never doing this again. This was a "let's see if I can do it" type of thing and now I have, so I'm done. :D I completely underestimated the toll it would take on my legs. Arms are fine, legs not so much!
I need to see how much money we have currently, but I did find an ART person in Walnut Creek who has already gotten back to me.
