Today I woke up at 12:30, so I figured if I needed 11 hours of sleep and still felt sore my body needed a day off. There's a fine line between pushing yourself and not letting yourself get the recovery you need. I'm still not sure if I've found it, but after looking on the crossfit forums, I found quite a few threads on recovery:
http://www.board.crossfit.com/
http://www.board.crossfit.com/
http://www.board.crossfit.com/
http://www.board.crossfit.com/
I think I'm giving recovery enough attention in that I eat zone meals and am usually sucessful in getting 8 hours of sleep a night, but I think I'm not drinking enough water. I try to drink a lot of water, but I've noticed signs that say that I'm still not adequately hydrated.
The forums also mention having a "half week" (or something like that, can't remember) after three weeks of all out CF. The idea is after three weeks of pushing your body to the limit you have a week where you cut every WOD in half, like if Rx'd is 1 mile run you do 800 meters, 30 pullups you do 15, etc.
I've heard Jerry talk about various wod's being active recovery, but since he's planning wod's for people on various schedules I can't imagine he'll plan something like a half week. I think I'll treat my upcoming christmas vacation as a half week. In the mean time, hit it and hit it hard!
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