Last week I talked about over-training/over-reaching as I had suffered from several of the related symptoms. I took three days off and did some rescheduling and much to my surprise I rebounded back stronger than ever. Core Pulse class felt like a tempo run again, in fact I don’t think I hit my max pulse once in this weeks class.

I suppose this is the thing which I have been missing in my training, I go on and on with the same or increased work load and intensity for months while in reality not even elite athletes work out in this manner. The concept of “de-loading periods” is not exactly unfamiliar to me, but somehow I have managed to dismiss it completely up until now. Looking back at my running log from three years back I note that I did schedule some sort of “plateau weeks” into my program but I guess I didn’t really understand why I did this.

So lesson learned I suppose. A bit of fatigue at the end of a six week cycle might not be that harmful if I just remember to schedule a de-loading/rest period at the end of the cycle.