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I am injured, frustrated and bored - what can Complete Racing Solutions do for me?
Over the last nineteen years, I have had the opportunity to train with racers of all ability levels. Some of the racers were million dollar racers that I could watch race on my television on the weekend! But ironically, nine out of ten of these racers are no longer competing. In my journey to "learn from the best", I noticed a consistent theme amongst all of these racers, they were frequently injured, frustrated and not enjoying the career of a lifetime - and I was becoming one of them.
My big eye opener occurred May 3, 1992 when I woke up at 4:30am for a morning workout so frustrated and tired, I literally showed the alarm clock through my wall next to my bed. After I pulled my hand out of the wall, I sat up on the side of my bed and asked myself what I was doing to myself in the name of performance. I was doing everything "the other racers were doing" but nothing seemed to be working out correctly. I was weighing my food, hadn't had any simple sugars in two years and still was not as lean as I wanted to be. I couldn't break through any speed barriers no matter how many more speed sets I incorporated into my weekly schedule. If I was doing everything by the book, where were my big performances - why all the performance plateaus? My temporary break ended up lasting five years before I had the desire to establish some training, racing and personal goals for the 1997 racing season.
During this five year sabbatical, and some painful soul searching, I wanted to determine how I got myself into this situation (the first step as they say is realizing you have a problem - I get that now!). I went back and looked at my training logs -they were perfectly maintained of course, and realized that I had lost sight of what worked for me early on in my athletic career. I was pulled into that vortex that other racers were more interested in making themselves look good at the expense of me. These workouts lead to riding sessions that were too high on the intensity scale, too long in duration and occurred to frequently during the week which lead to obvious overtraining symptoms that I disregarded. My vicious cycle of overtraining lead to bad biomechanics which then lead to exercising in pain most of the time, but I "Had to hold pace" was my mindset and justification of training through the pain.
It wasn't until I looked at my training program prior to joining "the fast guys" that I realized that what I needed to do was to listen to my body and allow adequate time to absorb my workouts. When I looked at the racers that had longevity in my sport (triathlon at the time), where the athletes that trained by themselves a lot of time and followed the feedback that their body gave them. I can honestly say that today, if I am tired - I sleep. If I am hungry - I eat. I am now faster at 42 than I was at 29, not just in regards to human performance, but I am not faster asleep than I was at 42 because I am balanced and healthy.
I am looking forward to helping you create this balance, health and longevity in your personal endeavors without the negative side effects of injury or burn out!
If you have began a program only to get injured, bored, frustrated and even dropped out, learn how Coach Robb's Complete Racing Solutions program will keep you Injury Free, Motivated and constantly achieving the goals you established for yourself! Give us a try, join now!
