Owen Anderson

My bum appears to be letting go.

Er...that is, the pain in my butt is easing off.

Which is surprising, considering the last three days of training. But I think I finally found a Pilates move that is helping my muscles settle down. Funnily enough, it's not a piriformis stretch, nor a hip flexor move, but a side lying over a barrel type thing.

That's the title of a great article by exercise physiologist extraordinaire Dr. Owen Anderson that rescued my workout today.

I'll see if I can get permission to publish it on the site; but there's a simple, lesson from it that I can share. Here it is: If you're feeling really, really "off" and don't think you can train -- do two intervals or seven minutes as fast as you can, THEN quit.

Today in Boulder was a summer's day. But I was so knackered (English expression meaning very, very tired, originating from what they do to exhausted horses) that I really wasn't up to what was on the schedule: a quality session involving quite a few reps at a decent pace.