I hope everyone had a great first open workout. I know I did (sort of, it felt rather terrible but satisfying in a strange way). We’re now in open territory and it’s time to showcase all of your hard work from over the past year. I just released some new programming to optimize your performance through the open while keeping your body fresh and helping to minimize the risk of injury.
To purchase this month’s programming click HERE:
Changes and additions to this month’s programming:
- More modifications per workout – Depending on how beat up your body is from the open workout you can adjust accordingly
- More conditioning specific to the demands of the open. We have a good idea of what we’ll be seeing and we need to be ready for it.
- Strength training maintenance – Strength work is kept at a maintenance level to maximize conditioning.
- Optional work specific to addressing exercises that have most historically shown up in the open.
My thoughts on last month’s programming:
- I felt the program addressed the specific demands of the open. I routinely felt as if I was better able to handle higher volume workouts with less fatigue.
- My strength went down during this cycle. This was expected but I was ready to accept a dip in strength for improved conditioning.
- A bit too much work in general. I had an idea this was going to happen. Last month was almost all open workouts which tend to be pretty challenging. Both myself and several clients spoke to how drained they felt over the course of the month. Overall I felt that this adequately prepared everyone for the open but was teetering on too much.
- Boring – The open is has been fairly predictable over the past few years. The program reflects this. Because of that there wasn’t as …read more
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