Training Day: Tuesday

This week being an easy week means this Tuesday is an off/recovery day. No real training scheduled for today, so no massive banana smoothies and tubs of peanut butter.

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I'll mostly chill out today and behave like something resembling a normal person, eating a normal amount of calories. But I will keep the protein intake relatively high.

However if I am at my girlfriend's house (which I almost definitely will be...like today), I will steal her yoga mat and do some stretching, focusing on the:

Calves
Hamstrings
Quads
Glutes
Hip Flexors

For me, these are the muscles I find become the tightest especially from running and being folded up into an aggressive bike position. I'll also stretch out my shoulders and work on my shoulder mobility, which massively aids my swim stroke technique. I'd have to do a video on this, I'd struggle to write a description of what I actually do to my shoulders.

I'll also do a little bit of foal rolling to massage my calves and quads just to ease out any knots developing and to increase blood flow to the area. Another thing I continue to do is to drink plenty of water to help filter out metabolic waste, just to help keep the recovery ticking over. I'll also have a nap if I feel like I need one.

Here is my beloved @abergurl demonstrating the art of napping during the day...

Apart from that not much else has happened on a recovery day like today, normally my first recovery day of my easy week is a Wednesday. But today the weather has been so fowl I figured I'd just swap it for day. That all said its time to prepare for tomorrow a relatively easy day, but a hard day by normals standards.

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