Revolution Coaching

If you continue to pile on stress without adequate rest and recovery, you'll just get slower, tired, and possibly injured.

I've talked a lot about what to eat after exercise for recovery, but there's more to taking muscle and building fitness than protein/carbs/hydration. For example, let's look at the cooldown directly after workouts

After intense exercise, you should go into some kind of recovery (easy spinning, slow jogging, chill strokes in the pool, etc.). This isn't just because it feels good. The cooldown is active recovery and is even more essential for women, since we experience a greater decrease in arterial blood pressure after exercise than men.

With an active cooldown, your body gradually brings down the heart rate, reducing the hypotensive effect in women (say No to head rushes!), clearing lactate from the blood, and reducing the acute decrease in your immunity.
‼ This is especially advantageous when you have two workouts in a day or an evening session followed by an early morning workout the next day. ‼

Do you participate in regular cooldowns? If you said no before reading this...will you be adding one?

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Coach MOM!

"When Michael Jordan did not make his Varsity basketball team, his Mother did NOT: 1) complain to the school, 2) call the Coach, 3) demand a meeting with the AD, 4) transfer schools, 5) suggest MJ "take a year off" from the JV basketball team.
She simply told Michael, 'get in the gym and work harder'.
Now he's the greatest basketball player of all time. 🐐
Imagine what kids, and the world, would become if more parents were like Deloris Jordan, rather than making excuses and complaining under the guise of 'just being their kid's advocate."

Be an advocate for your athlete but let them also be their own advocate with their work. When things aren't going your way... first look for what you can do to change it.