[quote]fearnloathingnyc wrote:
[quote]brotardscience wrote:
Sounds like an awesome vacation.
Good work in here.
I admire all this work and your work hours
While not in LE I do work crazy hours
I can empathize.
Overnights 14-24 hour days it takes a toll
Worst case is an out of town job bracketed with air travel.
I’m older (and currently broken) but I spend a bunch if time on recovery
Whether that’s ice - massage or just eating my face off every few weeks it helps [/quote]
Thanks for the kind words. Overnight shifts are tough. I worked 60 hours in overtime this month.
You have a tough workload yourself. What kind of specific recovery methods do you use when implementing ice and massage in your routine?
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thanks- my days range from 10 hour studio work to full on event or live sports work
14 plus hour days that can become a grind.
there was a pretty good mobility thread I started-
It was a sticky here it is
varying what I do to ‘warm up’ when I train - I spend a few minutes some days more then others
getting warm
I also try to do Over Head Squats and Hanging leg raises - feet to face
each time I train
Ill do them with 3 or 4 other basic things in a big giant set for a few rounds and there is my
mobility and activation shit done in like 10 minutes
some days suck and I have to spend like 25 minutes on that
I am an advocate of ‘foam rolling’
I split time with a PVC pipe a soft ball and an LX ball- I have a mini hard dual wheeled disc type roller for me feet
I’ll roll and do some very basic mobility stuff when I get up- and before bed if I can
maybe 5 mins
feet I have to do in the morning most days
before I train and usually late that night
I smash that shit out with the PVC pipe and LX ball
this gets pretty ugly and pretty brutal
piriformis glutes and quads IT bands in particular
Ice
I have a couple of re-freezeable ice packs that I will use that have velcro
shoulder - knee 's neck occasionally Ill sit on one for a while
Ice buckets -
hotels are good for this- but really ice is like 2-3$ dollars for a big ass bag at a deli
Ill fill a bucket with ice and some water and stick my foot or feet in there
and ice baths
while these suck balls- two or three bags in a tub are awesome.
the ice baths are pretty extreme
doing it in a hotel - is usually more work related then training related
but being on your feet for 5 16 hour days - walking everywhere in a stadium takes a toll
massage
there are cheap cheap store front places all over NYC choose carefully
I use them maybe 2x a month - more if I am training allot
foot massage same thing here I need to to do this more.
for years I would touch my toes crack my neck and maybe do some arm swings
and be ready to run roll lift what ever.
I attack the recovery thing and stretching - somewhat aggressively
one last thing Is I sometimes do things that are counterproductive
but do the trick.
the last year or so I have been squatting multiple times a week
and often two days in a row- and sometimes loading up on two sessions before
DOMS hits seems to work.