Most Endurance Athletes need to rethink their work-play-life balance.
Albert Einstein once said “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”. Think about this for a second and ask yourself, does this quote apply to the way I train?
We understand that most recreational endurance athletes just want to participate in their sport, stay fit and wear silly clothes. If you want to wear silly clothes that’s okay with us, in fact we encourage it! Hell, isn’t having fun why we participate in our chosen sport anyway? With that being said there isn’t anything “fun” about being overtrained, immobile, injured and weak. One of these outcomes is inevitable if your following a linear mileage based training plan. Ultimately, there’s more important things in life than your weekly mileage. Just think about it. Instead of pounding the pavement, you could be reading your child a bed time story or spending quality time with loved ones. Yet, many athletes miss these simple pleasures because they “need to get the miles in.” Who really has 20 hours a week to devote solely to training anyway? That’s why we embrace an alternative training system based on the work-play-life balance.
If you’re looking for a system to help manage your work-play-life balance we can help. Our programming provides an effective way for endurance athletes to train without neglecting their personal responsibilities. Lets face it, the majority of amateur athletes aren’t privy to the luxuries bestowed upon a professional athlete. Athletes like you and I have bills, family, work and life commitments that often take precedent over our sport. With that in mind, our program focuses on proven, time efficient training techniques. Our athletes core conditioning is developed by performing functional movements executed at high intensity. We then follow that up with a sport specific component for each individual athlete. In our experience this method has helped many athletes find an acceptable balance between their life, work and training. They accomplish all of this without compromising their athletic performance. Do you actually enjoy getting up at o-dark-thirty for your mandatory weekly long run? I sure didn’t! I’d rather spend that time enjoying life with family and friends…this is what the work-play-life balance is all about.
There are no shortcuts…just hard work!
Looking for a magic pill? Good news…we’ve found it and it’s called hard work! Virtually every athlete’s ultimate goal is to see an increase in their performance. Unfortunately, long, slow distance style training provides little from a true performance perspective. Some of the problems that recreational athletes encounter stems from the sheer volume of work involved in typical periodized endurance training. The majority of recreational endurance athletes are over 30 years of age. As we get older it becomes increasingly difficult to recover from long training sessions. Inevitabley, most athletes will become overtrained and/or injured while using a progressive mileage build up program due to a lack of diversification. What could be worse than training for months leading up to a race and getting injured two weeks out? Accumulation based programming makes little sense considering that, at some point, all serious athletes go outside their sport-specific work to improve. Unfortunately, recreational runners, swimmers and cyclists rarely diversify their training sufficiently in order to prevent the occurrence of overuse injuries. This is where our program differs. We specifically address each individual athlete’s training needs. We focus on proper technique, biomechanics, mobility and pathology. This protocol, coupled with the use of high intensity resistance training, has been extremely effective in developing our endurance athletes. High intensity training is the cornerstone of our conditioning program. We slowly build upon that foundation with supplemental sport specific training. We certainly continue to run, bike and swim at intensity…but it’s all supplemental to our core conditioning program. We strive to forge durability in our athletes through the usage of plyometrics, olympic lifting, gymnastics and dedicated strength training. This format allows us to safely provide you with superior training for any distance with drastically less impact on your body.
We understand that our program is contrarian in nature. It’s the opposite of what everyone is telling you. We get it! But, the fact remains that this training will work for any athlete with an open mind and a desire to compete .
Our program is evidence based and we’d be happy to provide you with specific case studies upon request. Let us show you how to achieve a healthy work-play- life balance. If you have any questions about our program please call or email us. 813-716-6717 or crossfitrevolution@gmail.com.
