{"id":1056,"date":"2010-12-08T20:06:42","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T20:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/?p=1056"},"modified":"2019-01-19T23:26:32","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T23:26:32","slug":"deconstruction-and-reconstruction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/deconstruction-and-reconstruction\/","title":{"rendered":"Deconstruction and Reconstruction"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cAre you getting\u00a0tired<\/strong>\u00a0or are you getting\u00a0better<\/strong>?\u201d
\n– Vern Gambetta<\/em><\/p>\n

In talking with a few\u00a0athletes this week,\u00a0I was\u00a0amazed to hear\u00a0how their mentality of training is centered around the bravado of deconstruction.<\/p>\n

It is unfortunate that so many are still under the belief that a workout is only productive if you are lying on the floor in a puddle of your own sweat and vomit.\u00a0 The\u00a0\u201clast man standing\u201d\u00a0<\/em>mentality of training is not one that should be sensationalized and often leads to a very short sighted view of the overall training picture \u2013 which is much larger than any single workout.\u00a0 This thought process is often accepted by sports coaches as well, who commonly don\u2019t understand the goal of a good training program and are typically the first coaches to prescribe \u201cpenalty\u201d workouts\/runs for those who do poorly in competition.<\/p>\n

I am not saying this to give athletes a free pass from working hard, in fact, hard work is extremely important.\u00a0 However, periods of hard work (or sometimes hard training days) should be followed by days of\u00a0reconstruction\u00a0<\/em>to allow the athlete time to recovery and adapt to the training stimulus you have just imposed on them.\u00a0 You can have the best program on paper, but if an athlete cannot recover from it, then it is pretty much worthless.<\/p>\n

The training program should by thought out and satisfy the goals of the individual and the specific sport.\u00a0 Doing\u00a0workouts\u00a0<\/em>is not the same as performing a\u00a0program.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>As Vern\u2019s quote above states, the goal is not to get tired, it is to get better!<\/p>\n

\u201cMake your hard days hard and your easy days easy.\u201d
\n–<\/em>Charlie Francis<\/p>\n

Just as Charlie Francis states, if the day is going to be a \u201chard\u201d day, then really get after it, and if the goal is to recover and give the body a break, then do so appropriately.\u00a0 The biggest error most athletes make is the later, as their mind tends to play tricks on them, causing them to think that they are\u00a0\u201cNot working hard enough\u201d\u00a0<\/em>or\u00a0\u201cThis is too easy.\u00a0 I need to add in a few more sets or increase the intensity a little bit to make it worthwhile\u201d.\u00a0\u00a0<\/em>Unfortunately, your body can only handle so much and eventually you begin to go backwards in your training or, even worse, sustain some sort of injury.<\/p>\n

Remember, training is a process and not everyday is going to be your day.\u00a0 Not everyday is for breaking personal records or adding more weight to the bar.\u00a0 Keep the end goal in mind and slowly hack away at that goal.\u00a0 Don\u2019t be so focused on a single workout and the idea that every workout should absolutely destroy you for it to mean anything.<\/p>\n

You are only as good as your ability to adapt to the stresses that are placed upon you.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cAre you getting\u00a0tired\u00a0or are you getting\u00a0better?\u201d – Vern Gambetta In talking with a few\u00a0athletes this week,\u00a0I was\u00a0amazed to hear\u00a0how their mentality of training is centered around the bravado of deconstruction. It is unfortunate that so many are still under the belief that a workout is only productive if you are lying on the floor in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-strength-and-conditioning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1057,"href":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions\/1057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/optimumsportsperformance.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}