Category: Health & Fitness

Aloha, Doug. I read all of your stuff and you’re a pretty clever dude. I have a concern about my weekly hikes, where my wife and I climb up and down a Kaua‘i ridge or mountain. Our hikes are pretty, very bodily and can past 5 to seven hrs. You’d probably simply call them “Super Strenuous Stamina Scrambles.” Considering the fact that we only do these at the time a week, I’m curious if this is a very good matter or a lousy issue for our fitness. This dilemma turns into far more significant as we get older and you are just the proper particular person to check with.

— Mahalo, K.J.

I appreciate your issue and remarks, KJ. You are clearly both equally young at coronary heart, as nicely as kindhearted.

Initial and foremost, it’s wonderful to see your enthusiasm for remaining energetic and completely checking out the gorgeous landscapes of Kaua‘i. Your jungle ventures and island adventures are definitely extraordinary. I also love climbing and biking the panoramas of paradise, in addition to my month to month Walk &Chat (next a person on 11/5 at 5 p.m.).

“Weekend Athlete Syndrome” is a expression utilized to characterize men and women who engage in physically demanding physical pursuits only when per 7 days, generally when they have some added time on a Saturday or Sunday. Tennis, basketball, flag football and soccer are well-liked sporting activities. Surf shredding, bicycle blazing, and sand spiking count, way too. A 7-hour Tremendous Intense Saturday/Sunday Stamina Scramble surely steals the exhibit, even for the younger-hearted.

While just about every of these actions supplies a rigorous training, the issue arises from the extended gap among classes. Engaging in these kinds of intensive actions only as soon as a 7 days implies spending the selling price for a fifty percent-working day hike without having getting the total reward for your invested attempts. Having 6 days off in amongst exercise routines tends to make your up coming scramble more durable on stamina and rougher on protection.

There is just too substantially down time and, as a end result, detraining all through the 7 days negates any teaching results from the weekend. This is not only not good it can also be very terrible.

Several individuals mistakenly believe that becoming a weekend warrior improves their amount of conditioning, so they press themselves progressively more difficult during just about every impending scrimmage or scramble. Inevitably, this is an incident waiting around to happen.

The deficiency of physiological adaptation from training suggests that, at some stage, the intensity of your weekend adventure will outmatch your preparing, primary to muscle and tendon strains, ligament sprains or, even worse nevertheless, cardiovascular “pains.”

In my preceding column, I mentioned that I don’t like taking off a lot more than two times in a row from on-goal work out, specially for activities involving stamina. When you do so, the benefits of work out begin to end. Detraining starts off only days soon after teaching stops.