Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Staff Work Day

...on April Fools' Day. Uh-oh. Nervous.

I made a little playlist for the occasion.


Friday, March 26, 2010

Aneurhythms

Obsessed with this song right now.

And this one, too.

Thanks, Alicia.

Have a sweet weekend!


**UPDATE**
Hey, remember Savage Garden? Hahahaha, they just popped up on my Pandora station. Soooo huge with this song when I was gearing up to graduate high-school. I'll just thumbs-down them now...

Tuesday, March 2, 2010

Slow Down

So I have this book, and this book, and I'm attempting to do periodization as a training program this year. I did it, somewhat loosely, last year, and thought it was pretty great, so I'm trying to stick to it a little more closely this year.

The thing with this program, though, is that for the first three months of the year, you go slow. It's counter-intuitive. And sometimes it's hard to go slow.

I think, a lot of times, in this society/culture, we want to go fast. We feel the need to go fast right now. If I don't hurry up then __________ will happen, and this will mess everything up/put me at a severe disadvantage/be the end of the world. There's so much pressure to do as much as you can, as fast as you can, as long as you can.




But in periodization, you learn that training too hard, too fast will limit you in the long run. Oops... It kind of puts a ceiling on your performance. You end up hurting yourself.

The thing that takes so long is building aerobic capacity, and your ability to, mm, process oxygen more efficiently. You have to give your body time to build more of the tiniest blood vessels, capillaries. So all this is going on while you're pacing yourself at this slow, steady rate. Invisible. But it's happening. You end up getting more out of each breath you take.

And I was thinking that it's the same, spiritually. We want to rush results. We want growth now. We try to force it.


We get burnt out.


Sometimes the fastest way is to go slow.