Thursday, December 04, 2008 3

The Corrections

Mistake #2

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Fitness Mistakes

Working Out Just to Work Out
Your training should support the physical demands of your sport. Doing Olympic lifts to failure won't improve your climbing endurance. Long-distance jogging doesn't build the anaerobic capacity that hockey players need. And doing only two-leg strength exercises in the gym doesn't make sense for start-and-stop sports like soccer, since running is an alternating single-leg activity.

The Fix: Make sure your workouts train the muscle groups you need. If your sport involves running, do some single-leg box jumps. If you're an endurance biker, you need to convert some fast-twitch muscles to slow-twitch, so be sure to do the occasional weekend tour in which you ride all day at a leisurely tempo. And unless you're a powerlifter, don't lift weights to failure: it'll just make you sore the next day.

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Josh

My SPORT?! What sport? I can barely get out of bed in the morning!

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Not Josh

But I thought sleeping was a sport!!

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Ohio Dad

I think my training mistakes can all be sourced back to the sequence of events that led to marriage, children, and a hammer of a mortgage that requires me to work all the time. Yeah, I think that's probably it.

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