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?
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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 bet a lot of pull sets would help too just to ease off the work on the legs, but don't end up injuring the shoulders pulling to much either. On the upside though, i bet once they fully recover they'll be legs of steel!
That yardage is insane btw :) I never even did close to 19k in one day in college. Ugh. I think the most I ever hit was 15k in two practices.
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 bet a lot of pull sets would help too just to ease off the work on the legs, but don't end up injuring the shoulders pulling to much either. On the upside though, i bet once they fully recover they'll be legs of steel!
That yardage is insane btw :) I never even did close to 19k in one day in college. Ugh. I think the most I ever hit was 15k in two practices.
