Thursday, March 3, 2011

Sleep - Envy Those Who Get It

Warmup: 5 min Jump Rope

Strength: 5x5 Press

WOD:      For Time:

                       50 Pullups
                       50 Wall Ball @ 20/14 lbs
                       50 Situps (Ab-mat)
                       50 Air Squats

Tabata: Kettlebell Swings @ 24/16 kg

If you want to get strong you need to sleep. You can have the best, tightest, strictest diet in the whole world, workout 6 days a week, take your post workout nutrition seriously, but if you're not sleeping you might as well go back to eating bread. Your body rebuilds, recovers, and re-invents itself while you sleep. If you don't give your body enough time to do this, then you're short changing yourself. If you know you're not getting enough sleep (and you know who you are) try and get more. If it's an impossibility can you take naps during the weekend? Can you nap for 30 minutes of your 1 hour lunch break? If you're serious about your training (college people I'll speak to you now) don't go crazy every night of the week. If you want to win tennis matches you need 8+ hours of sleep a night. Then when you have a two year old who keeps you up from midnight to 3am you'll appreciate your younger days.... Sleep!

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