New Year, New Me (and injury)
With New years right around the corner its time to "get right" and start some new workout program
If you’ve been paying attention you’ll see new years specials like this from all the usual suspects.
Group fitness/boot camp style classes and Couch to 5k programs are pretty common since they are easy.
Here's a few tips to ensure you don't develop an overuse injury and stay on track for the ENTIRE year.
#1 Ramp up slow
Try to look at your increases in activity as a PERCENT of what you’re currently doing and make SMALL increases more frequently.
Using running as an example because it’s easy, if you’re only running 1 miles/day 3x/week, upping it to 2 miles/day is a 100% increase in activity.
There’s no magic formula to know the exact percent increase you can tolerate, but 10-20% at a time will improve your chances.
#2 Dial in your nutrition
Getting stronger and getting better at running are PERFORMANCE goals.
Performance goals require FUEL so you can recover and your body improve.
So EAT
Yes I get it, you have to be in a calorie deficit to lose weight.
Best way to manage that is to eat MAINTENANCE calories, and then let exercise create the deficit.
Not both
#3 Prep your body
The less active you’ve been, the less your body will be able to tolerate.
This is yet another reason I love isometrics.
Not only do they HEAL tendinitis, the DEFEND against it
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