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Late update for Tuesday....we lost by 19. They had one small school D1 guy and two D2 guys and DESTROYED us on the glass. We stayed with them until about 12 minutes left in the second half and we went cold for a few minutes and went from down 7 to down 25 just like that. We battled back hard but their dominance on the offensive glass did us in. We had 4 points on 3 offensive rebounds lol! I landed on a guys ankle with 7 minutes left and sat the rest of the game. It's tender still but the swelling went down quickly with ice so I don't think its too bad. I bought a brace today and I'll wrap it and throw the brace on and give it a go tomorrow, see what happens.

anyway, good job luke. in any event i'm glad to have forced myself out of bed this morning. discipline > *.

Quote from: entropy on February 13, 2013, 10:20:50 am

I guess after training hard for the last 12 months or so, this is the first week off i've had. and my knees are happy everything feels good and rested. It might even do me good. I hope I dont get too fat though from being inactive.

IMO this is the hardest part about dieting/maintaining leanness.  Like I have been stressing, with proper tempo work and high-workout capacity you can become/maintain very lean without restricting calories much.

Additionally, it's not that hard to eat clean when you running quick times on the track, throwing up big weights, and looking great.  If you run a couple season PR's in the morning and then get in the weight room and kill some squats that afternoon, when you go out with your girl that night it only makes sense to say "I'll take the grilled Salmon".   Poor quality food doesn't even seem right for the well oiled machine you are.

The problem is when the activity falls off.  Those little injuries/or life/work events where you don't/can't train for a week.  You forget that you are the pinnacle of fitness and ice-cream doesn't sound horrible anymore.  Without the positive feedback of training and improving/maintaining excellent body composition it becomes easier and easier to fall off the wagon...   Then a two week injury gets accompanied by a few lbs of fat gain which causes some more injuries and your season goes...

Don't let this happen!  The hardest thing is when your inactive you actually should eat CLEANER than when you are training heavily.  If you can master this you will be healthy for the rest of your life.   There will be times we can't train whether life or injury, and as you get older dealing with these times correctly is probably more important than your actual training.