Thread: Competitive running on day after heavy lifting

depends on a lot of things....

how hard you trained yesterday
how hard you trained for the past week
how hard you trained for the past month


it is going to come down to if your body can handle it. no one can tell you what is to mcuh for you individually.

My knees can't handle running the day after some tough squatting

But I like to run when my quads are still hit from training
I seems to warm them up, so I can stretch out some of the WO punishment

Originally Posted by P-funk

depends on a lot of things....

how hard you trained yesterday
how hard you trained for the past week
how hard you trained for the past month


it is going to come down to if your body can handle it. no one can tell you what is to mcuh for you individually.

Till complete failure. I always train till failure. Is there any other way to train?

It is true that no one can say how much is too much for me individually. But training at 100% effort for me, would do the same damage to me as training at 100% effort would to someone else. The best the individual can do is the best the individual can do which would have a different magnitude for everyone - but percentage-wise (unless someone pikes out in training early) - we're all equal.

I figured I'm going to give the race a go. We'll see.

a) yes, there are other ways to train then complete failure!

b) 100% intensity will be pushing it for anyone, correct. This is why it is important to know what you did training wise last week, last month, etc.....a person can handle 100% intensity for a few weeks before unloading their training and allowing their increased fitness level to catch up. that the whole point of over-reahcing in training programs.

I think most likely you would be fine, assuming that feel like you can do so. A competitive 5km thrown in at random when you normally allow for full recovery would probably be fine. However, like P-funk said, you really have to be the ultimate judge.