Massage and My Training

After my 48 hours of rest and recovery I felt, for lack of better words, AMAZING! I attribute most of this to the massage I received on Thursday afternoon. I had three or four training sessions after this rest period and my performances were outstanding. Both my running and lifting form felt great, even during the longer/faster metabolic conditioning workouts. 

It has been probably a year since I last had a really good massage. The woman I am seeing for my massages, a.k.a. body-work, came highly recommended from a few good friends, all of whom train pretty consistently. If you'd like her info. please shoot me an email.

Here is a piece from Karma CrossFit on the benefits of massage therapy for athletic performance. This is also a good video clip of the 2009 CrossFit Games Female Champion, Tanya Wagner, receiving a massage while her massage therapist talks about the benefits of massage and working on CrossFit athletes.

We are about two weeks out from the Southwest Regionals and I feel pretty good about where I'm at. I feel strong, rested, and ready to go. I am not doing anything special in my training. I have tried most of the workouts for Regionals, and they are nothing I can't handle I just need to do them faster :). I am trying to throw in some of the movements we'll see in Regionals into my regular training sessions in order to get more comfortable with them while working at full speed. Again though, I'm not doing anything different or special. I'll probably take 48 hours off before the first day of events in the hopes I felt as good as I felt this past week.