Some days you have it, and some days you don’t. Why is that?
Can I do a better job of making sure I am ready when it counts?
This is one of the most talked about topics right now in the strength and conditioning world. We have new technology that helps make it very easy to track and interrupt your biofeedback markers. Readiness can be measured in numerous ways, but for now we will use HRV and questionnaires as our examples. Heart Rate Variability is the measurement of the timing between RR intervals seen in a heart beat and the correlation to the pulse. It gives us a look into the autonomic nervous system and how it is responding to the stress we impose on it. This feedback gives us some insight as to how close the body is to being optimally ready or too beat up to go.
Ever have a day when you went in to train or play a game and it just felt like you were working extremely hard just to get going? Things felt sluggish, tasks that normally would feel smooth were rough and laborious. This would most likely be a day where your readiness was low, and could be the result of poor recovery or just too many training days in a row and the body needing a break. These days are normal. In fact you want to experience these at least a few times in your training cycle. This means that you are pushing your body hard enough for it to adapt. But, like everything, there is a fine line between just enough and overboard. A lot of times we see athletes thinking more is better and they crush themselves under training loads and volume. This is when the body will start to breakdown rather than repair.
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