Great advice and you’ve come to very healthy resolutions from your experiences to share. Very few people do that. The tough mudder is not that bad though. Neither very tough nor very mudder and you barely feel the shock from the electrical wire. But the arctic enema was no joke. You jump into a giant debris box filled with ice water and then swim under a barrier, fully submerging into 32 degree water. It’s like eating a whole boat of ice cream and getting kicked in the nuts! 🥶
When going to the gym is seen as something you do to perform and exhibit yourself, and not as a place in which you prepare your body, the gym can be a very dangerous place. I played high level rugby for 15 years, played it since I was a kid. I trained side by side with olympic wrestelers, weightlifters, judo guys, we used to do cleans and jerks only after years of trainning and preparation, under strict proffesional and medical assessment. Now people at their 30's and 40's are doing jerks for the first time in their lives like they are doing push ups, maybe assisted by the gym guy. When injuries appear and they wonder what they did wrong. Going to the gym can be fun. But you also need to take it with responsability.
Great advice, as always. Mentioning the different types of fatigue was awesome. We tend to think of only local muscle fatigue. We forget about local connective tissue fatigue, bone fatigue, systemic central nervous system fatigue, psychological fatigue, hormonal fatigue, etc. Very informational, as always.
Finally, someone is talking about posterior strength training! It is vital to avoid knee injuries, especially after ACL surgery. Thanks Victoria, love your content as always 🥰
Thank you so much for sharing! I absolutely need to implement some of these ideas ti build up my ligament resilience. I'm a huge fan of the ATG program as well!😀
