Training everyday - good or bad?

[Alexis Solis]

Hi to you all

I go to the gym Tuesdays and Thursdays, but I'd like to go everyday. I was wondering if this would affect my strength development (I mean, training strength 5 days a week in a row). Our coach makes us train strength a lot! Some days are pretty relaxed though. We focus on cardio, little strength training, and then skills (like flips, etc.) Would you recommend going everyday? Or should I just keep going on Tuesdays and Thursdays?

(NOTE: I'd also train Parkour and Freerunning on Saturdays and rest completely on Sundays)

Coach if you could please instruct us on this topic. I think many of us have questions about how much to train.

Thanks!

[Animalonfire]

Suggest you have a look at: community >superman is alive and 19, and joint prep/flexibility>take it slow or blow your elbows.

Improving work capacity is a great thing to do, but not at the expense of your joints. Big leaps are not necessary, more page turns as coach describes in his HLL article.

Hope to have helped

Nick

[Coach Sommer]

If you follow the GB WODs and train M,T,TH,F you will be fine. This schedule allows for maximum work to occur alongside with also maximizing your recovery.

Yours in Fitness,

Coach Sommer

[Joshua Naterman]

3run, look at a bunch of my recent posts over the last 2 weeks. I get into this very specifically. The short version is that when you go hard all the time, you end up depressing the nervous system. Until it recovers, even fully healed muscles will not function at maximum capacity.

The GB WODs take this into account and are specifically designed to not only NOT overload the nervous system but also to allow sufficient muscular recovery as well.

When you read "superman is alive and 19" keep in mind that even though John Broz doesn't use structured training, he follows the same concept. His exact words are " You can't have a specific number you try to reach in the gym. What if you're tired, or sick? We go to a training max every day, but that's not the same thing each day. One day I might hit 180kb in the clean and another I may only bet 140 or 150. What matters is that I do what I can for that day."

Because his focus is so narrow, meaning JUST the Olympic lifts, he can afford to put more energy into the few exercises he does. Even so, you can see that he allows for natural recuperation of the Central Nervous System.

The WODs here not only train a far, far wider range of abilities but are also more structured. They specifically allow for the CNS to recover, as well as the muscles, and intensity is never too high for too long. This exact program has created a long, long line of state, regional and national champions, and it will do the same for you. If you want REAL answers, take some time and read the WODs for an entire month. They're all there, go back and start in May, read every single WOD through today in order. You'll see how we are never working the same things too much, and yet everyone who follows the WODs makes progress on a regular basis! Far better progress than the people who try and do their own thing, and some of us have had great success doing that.

[Alexis Solis]

Thanks to everyone, this has been really helpful!!! I really appreciate it guys.

GL to everyone with your training

[Alexis Solis]

I've read all the WODs since May 5th. They are great but I've a problem. I don't have ANY parallel bars, or XR whatsoever (and no money to buy them either). I only have access to that at my gym :cry: Also, there are some things I don't understand about the WODs. What are the "embedded" exercises? Taking this into account, would you recommend going to my gym the whole week (5 days in a row) or what should I do?

(Note: if I go the gym, I have to follow my coach's workout, I can't train on my own)

[Blairbob]

It depends on if your focus is skill training or strength development. If your coach's strength work on that day was light enough you might be able to do both the WOD and go to the gym with proper recuperation.

As for no PB - make some or use some bar stools or chairs or sawhorses. A set of rings can easily be made for about $20, if not less with minimal tools (most hardware stores will cut the PVC for you and you just need an oven otherwise basically).

It also sounds like you don't have the book which makes understanding the GB WOD program much more simple.

[Alexis Solis]

Blairbob,

Actually, my focus is both strength and skill development. If my coach's strength work is light every now and then, is it enough for my muscles and nervous system to recover?? (taking in account that I'd also rest completely on Sundays). If not, I think I'll keep going to the gym just twice a week and try to do the WODs the rest of the days. I'll build the PB just how you said and I'll start saving money for some XR! Are they hard to install?

Another thing, I want to do the WODs but some of them are really hard. What should I do if I find the exercises still too difficult? Go back to the variations that I can do? (Example: L-sit walks, I can't even do a static L-sit LOL).

[Coach Sommer]

All the necessary progressions for both scaling up and scaling down the FBEs are available in Building the Gymnastic Body.

Yours in Fitness,

Coach Sommer