HonoraryMancunianThe pain is real
Cows Look Like MapsThis is so pervasive in the running community š
It's pervasive in most sports. Even weight lifting where rests are basically manditory. Still you get absolute chumps who injure themselves out because they work out too often.
Meanwhile I've been half-arsing my weight lifting routine for years, but have made and maintained far larger gains, through the benefits of junk food, attainable goals, and laziness.
Can confirm. Iām deep into my second year of (a proper) lifting (regime) and Iām doing it with far less frequency and weight than I wouldāve imagined at the start, due to chronic minor injury from constant overreaching in the first year.
(It doesnāt help that Iām pushing 40.)
Damn I needed to hear this. I keep pushing it and slightly hurting my back, then having to go way down, or stopping entirelyā¦
romkubeThis is the way
Oh, for sure. Iām just pointing it out since I have seen it with every runner I know and weāre on a running community lol.
From someone who isnāt a runner - what is the fix? Rest, hydration, stretching, massage?
11.9 miles a day
Doctors donāt want you to know this one trick.
Yes, all of those things. Some runners are afraid to rest because they think they will lose their ability to run if they donāt run every day. Theyāre just neurotic. Itās okay to rest a day or a week or a month or even a year. Iāve been distance running since the age of 13 and itās necessary to rest sometimes. Thereās no shame in resting, and ability to run will not be lost unless thereās some irreversible injury, which is rare for most healthy people.
halfWhen I fall off my routine I lose a ton of progress. That first hundred K after a long rest absolutely sucks for me. I wonāt run on an injury, but I understand the fear of the pit.
110k is neurotic. Distance runners are often neurotic, they run for the runners high, they run as an antidepressant, they run to burn calories because they eat too much to deal with life stresses, they run to get time away from their family, they run to replace other addictions theyāre running away from, Iāve experienced it all and Iāve seen it all.
naevaTheRatYeahā¦ wellā¦ Iāve run out of money for therapy
Not a runner, but for me the feeling is that I can workout for 364 days a year, but if I miss one single day, then the habit is broken and it takes the willpower necessary to move a fucking mountain to get back to the gym after that. It feels like I donāt built habits no matter how many times I do it.
Itās still necessary to rest, but the fear is legit.
Itās possible to workout all year long if you ignore youāre central nervous system š
I donāt want a central nervous system, I want a central confidence system. š
Wonāt feel so confident when you become irritable, your training goes to shit, you start losing sleep, you get sick all the time and so onā¦
Active rest is your friend
What is that?
Could be as simple as taking a day off and just going on a long walk or doing chores around the house. Itās a rest day where you use your free time to do something vs taking a day off where you do no real physical activity.
_wizardMy personal rest activity is disc golf.
Like what the other person said. Stay active, but donāt do any formal (or at least stressful) exercise. Gentle NEAT is better than being sedentary (unless youāre severley ill or injured).
People are having hard time to understand that resting IS an essential part of the training.
RetrogradeItās almost like constant unwavering exercise can be a problem like abusing anything else. Almost like itās an outlet for some deeper stress
TeXitoiDonāt ignore pain, listen to it. If it hurt thatās because you need to fix something. So think of what you have done that cause it. Did you change your habit? Why on this side and not the other? Did something different happened, not necessary in sport, but in your life?
Then try to change and see if you fixed the problem.
To actually answer your question: resting and not going insanely hard like that
12 miles a day in zone 4
āmaybe take a week or two of to see if it gets betterā just gets me blank stares of disbelief. But i took yesterday off, i canāt take off next week because ā¦
Iāve taken a year off running before and can jump right back into it. Rest is okay. Rest is important.
I grew up in Boulder CO and some of those folks cannot comprehend taking a day off let alone a real break. Like, dude, it rains once a year here and youāre gonna whine that you canāt climb today? Sheesh
Injured knee: took month off, bored out of my mind, did rehab exercises, ate well, slowly increased load.
Felt strong ran 3 days in a row, ate like crap, reintroduced squats to workout, played bowls at mumās bday (lots of lunging).
WhY iS mY kNeE fUcKeD aGaIn?
I need like a D/s relationship but for running. Just someone to bully me into making good decisions.
CatoblepasI need someone like that for my PT exercises, because I forever get stuck in a cycle of pain -> start consistently doing PT again -> itās fixed, I donāt need to do PT! -> why do I hurt?
Are you a hunk? we could switch for each other uncomfortable boomer eyebrow waggle
Jokes aside yeahā¦ Iām better about that now but it took some learning. Easiest I find just to be like āthis is part of my gym routine forever nowā