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I am injured, frustrated and bored - what can you do for me Coach Robb?...

Over the last nineteen years, I have had the opportunity to train with athletes and coaches of all backgrounds.  Some of the athletes were world champions and some were million dollar athletes that I could watch perform on my television on the weekend!  Some of the coaches had the privilege of training athletes that went onto the Olympics and medaled.  But ironically, nine out of ten of these athletes are no longer competing.  The popular coaches don’t have programs as big as they once did.  In my journey to “learn from the best”, I noticed a consistent theme amongst all of these athletes, they were frequently injured, frustrated and not enjoying the job 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 swim 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 guys 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 performance 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 the group workouts filled with talented athletes and coaches were more interested in making themselves look good at the expense of others.  These workouts lead to training 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 make the interval” 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 athletes 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!

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