The program is meant for the person who is not efficiently secreting cortisol and feels tired and flat much of the time. This person is also destroyed by hard workouts – initially feeling great, but hitting rock bottom a few hours afterwards. The athlete will also have a lot of soreness and unexplained aches and pains that no amount of rolling or mobility will fix. The significant reduction in cortisol secretion affects the body’s ability to reduce inflammation, and so recovery from workouts becomes difficult.

To help you recover from fatigue and get your cortisol levels back to normal, the program incorporates five elements:

• Strength
• Sprints
• Walking
• Gymnastics
• Sport Day

The workouts will be posted six days a week. To learn more about the programming, you can read my article here. Enjoy the workouts and good luck in regaining your health and energy!

Week 4, Day 6

Sport 1-2 hours outside the gym.

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The program is meant for the person who is not efficiently secreting cortisol and feels tired and flat much of the time. This person is also destroyed by hard workouts – initially feeling great, but hitting rock bottom a few hours afterwards. The athlete will also have a lot of soreness and unexplained aches and pains that no amount of rolling or mobility will fix. The significant reduction in cortisol secretion affects the body’s ability to reduce inflammation, and so recovery from workouts becomes difficult.

To help you recover from fatigue and get your cortisol levels back to normal, the program incorporates five elements:

• Strength
• Sprints
• Walking
• Gymnastics
• Sport Day

The workouts will be posted six days a week. To learn more about the programming, you can read my article here. Enjoy the workouts and good luck in regaining your health and energy!

Week 4, Day 5

Power Clean 3×3

Add weight again from your last week’s power clean workout. Work up to 3 sets of 3 work sets.

Front squat 3×3.

Up the weight 5- 10 lbs from last weeks 3×5

Prowler Push

Start light and walk for 25ft, jog for 25ft, and sprint for 25t. Start light and add weight for 5 rounds. Tip: I love the XPO sled – it’s my favorite piece of equipment.

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The program is meant for the person who is not efficiently secreting cortisol and feels tired and flat much of the time. This person is also destroyed by hard workouts – initially feeling great, but hitting rock bottom a few hours afterwards. The athlete will also have a lot of soreness and unexplained aches and pains that no amount of rolling or mobility will fix. The significant reduction in cortisol secretion affects the body’s ability to reduce inflammation, and so recovery from workouts becomes difficult.

To help you recover from fatigue and get your cortisol levels back to normal, the program incorporates five elements:

• Strength
• Sprints
• Walking
• Gymnastics
• Sport Day

The workouts will be posted six days a week. To learn more about the programming, you can read my article here. Enjoy the workouts and good luck in regaining your health and energy!

Week 4, Day 4

Deadlift 3×5

Use your last week’s 3×3 weight for your work sets. Space out your warm up sets of five evenly to your work set weight. It should take you 4-6 jumps to get to your work sets.

Bench Press 3×5

Use your last week’s 3×3 weight for your work sets. Space out your warm up sets of five evenly to your work set weight. It should take you 4-6 jumps to get to your work sets.

Met Con:

Bar only, 7 minutes of:

• 5 Hang clean and press
• 5 Tall clean and press
• 5 Clean and press

Do these movements without rushing and with perfect form. Try to keep moving.

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The program is meant for the person who is not efficiently secreting cortisol and feels tired and flat much of the time. This person is also destroyed by hard workouts – initially feeling great, but hitting rock bottom a few hours afterwards. The athlete will also have a lot of soreness and unexplained aches and pains that no amount of rolling or mobility will fix. The significant reduction in cortisol secretion affects the body’s ability to reduce inflammation, and so recovery from workouts becomes difficult.

To help you recover from fatigue and get your cortisol levels back to normal, the program incorporates five elements:

• Strength
• Sprints
• Walking
• Gymnastics
• Sport Day

The workouts will be posted six days a week. To learn more about the programming, you can read my article here. Enjoy the workouts and good luck in regaining your health and energy!

Week 4, Day 3

Walk one hour.

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The program is meant for the person who is not efficiently secreting cortisol and feels tired and flat much of the time. This person is also destroyed by hard workouts – initially feeling great, but hitting rock bottom a few hours afterwards. The athlete will also have a lot of soreness and unexplained aches and pains that no amount of rolling or mobility will fix. The significant reduction in cortisol secretion affects the body’s ability to reduce inflammation, and so recovery from workouts becomes difficult.

To help you recover from fatigue and get your cortisol levels back to normal, the program incorporates five elements:

• Strength
• Sprints
• Walking
• Gymnastics
• Sport Day

The workouts will be posted six days a week. To learn more about the programming, you can read my article here. Enjoy the workouts and good luck in regaining your health and energy!

Week 4, Day 2

Warm up with a jog and do some ballistic ROM, kicks, hip rotation, high knees, butt kickers. Get ready to sprint.

7×30 second sprint with a 2.5 minute rest. Can be on flat or on a hill.

Mobility: 20 minutes.

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The program is meant for the person who is not efficiently secreting cortisol and feels tired and flat much of the time. This person is also destroyed by hard workouts – initially feeling great, but hitting rock bottom a few hours afterwards. The athlete will also have a lot of soreness and unexplained aches and pains that no amount of rolling or mobility will fix. The significant reduction in cortisol secretion affects the body’s ability to reduce inflammation, and so recovery from workouts becomes difficult.

To help you recover from fatigue and get your cortisol levels back to normal, the program incorporates five elements:

• Strength
• Sprints
• Walking
• Gymnastics
• Sport Day

The workouts will be posted six days a week. To learn more about the programming, you can read my article here. Enjoy the workouts and good luck in regaining your health and energy!

Week 4, Day 1

Back Squat 3×5

Use last week’s 3×3 weight.

Press 3×5

Use last week’s 3×3 weight.

Dead hang or weighted pull ups ( supine grip ): 2-2-2-2-2-2

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The program is meant for the person who is not efficiently secreting cortisol and feels tired and flat much of the time. This person is also destroyed by hard workouts – initially feeling great, but hitting rock bottom a few hours afterwards. The athlete will also have a lot of soreness and unexplained aches and pains that no amount of rolling or mobility will fix. The significant reduction in cortisol secretion affects the body’s ability to reduce inflammation, and so recovery from workouts becomes difficult.

To help you recover from fatigue and get your cortisol levels back to normal, the program incorporates five elements:

• Strength
• Sprints
• Walking
• Gymnastics
• Sport Day

The workouts will be posted six days a week. To learn more about the programming, you can read my article here. Enjoy the workouts and good luck in regaining your health and energy!

Week 3, Day 6

Do a sport outside the gym for 1-2 hours.

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The program is meantfor the person who is not efficiently secreting cortisol and feels tired and flat much of the time. This person is also destroyed by hard workouts – initially feeling great, but hitting rock bottom a few hours afterwards. The athlete will also have a lot of soreness and unexplained aches and pains that no amount of rolling or mobility will fix. The significant reduction in cortisol secretion affects the body’s ability to reduce inflammation, and so recovery from workouts becomes difficult.

To help you recover from fatigue and get your cortisol levels back to normal, the program incorporates five elements:

• Strength
• Sprints
• Walking
• Gymnastics
• Sport Day

The workouts will be posted six days a week. To learn more about the programming, you can read my article here. Enjoy the workouts and good luck in regaining your health and energy!

Week 3, Day 5

Warm up

Your choice. Run, row, or jump rope for 5 minutes. Make sure you at least do some floor back extensions, in sets of 10, and some side planks, 10 seconds each side for 3 rounds. This should be your minimum. Add other warm up movements as needed. Do not overstretch your hamstrings on back squat, deadlift, or Olympic lifting days.

Power Clean 3×3

Up the weight a smidge from your last power cleaning session and hit 3 sets of 3 work sets.

Front Squat 3×5

Use 10 lbs less than your 1×5 from week 1.

Then, for 4 rounds:

• 1 arm overhead dumbbell walk for 50 feet, switch arms and return.
• Run or row 400m

Pick up a dumbbell 5 lbs heavier each round.

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The program is meantfor the person who is not efficiently secreting cortisol and feels tired and flat much of the time. This person is also destroyed by hard workouts – initially feeling great, but hitting rock bottom a few hours afterwards. The athlete will also have a lot of soreness and unexplained aches and pains that no amount of rolling or mobility will fix. The significant reduction in cortisol secretion affects the body’s ability to reduce inflammation, and so recovery from workouts becomes difficult.

To help you recover from fatigue and get your cortisol levels back to normal, the program incorporates five elements:

• Strength
• Sprints
• Walking
• Gymnastics
• Sport Day

The workouts will be posted six days a week. To learn more about the programming, you can read my article here. Enjoy the workouts and good luck in regaining your health and energy!

Week 3, Day 4

Deadlift 3×3

Up the weight this week from last week’s 3×5.

Warm up sets example: 3×95, 3×135, 3×155, 3x(185,185,185)- work sets.

Bench Press 3×3

Up the weight this week from last week’s 3×5.

Starting with the bar, do 5-6 warm up sets to 3 working sets of 3.

2000m easy row.

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The program is meant for the person who is not efficiently secreting cortisol and feels tired and flat much of the time. This person is also destroyed by hard workouts – initially feeling great, but hitting rock bottom a few hours afterwards. The athlete will also have a lot of soreness and unexplained aches and pains that no amount of rolling or mobility will fix. The significant reduction in cortisol secretion affects the body’s ability to reduce inflammation, and so recovery from workouts becomes difficult.

To help you recover from fatigue and get your cortisol levels back to normal, the program incorporates five elements:

• Strength
• Sprints
• Walking
• Gymnastics
• Sport Day

The workouts will be posted six days a week. To learn more about the programming, you can read my article here. Enjoy the workouts and good luck in regaining your health and energy!

Week 3, Day 3

Walk 1 hour or walk 45 minutes with a weight vest.

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The program is meant for the person who is not efficiently secreting cortisol and feels tired and flat much of the time. This person is also destroyed by hard workouts – initially feeling great, but hitting rock bottom a few hours afterwards. The athlete will also have a lot of soreness and unexplained aches and pains that no amount of rolling or mobility will fix. The significant reduction in cortisol secretion affects the body’s ability to reduce inflammation, and so recovery from workouts becomes difficult.

To help you recover from fatigue and get your cortisol levels back to normal, the program incorporates five elements:

• Strength
• Sprints
• Walking
• Gymnastics
• Sport Day

The workouts will be posted six days a week. To learn more about the programming, you can read my article here. Enjoy the workouts and good luck in regaining your health and energy!

Week 3, Day 2

Warm Up

Start off with a jog and do some ballistic ROM, kicks, hip rotation, high knees, butt kickers. Get ready to sprint.

Sprint:

10 – 12x 10second hill sprints with a 1 minute rest interval.

Cool Down:

Your choice

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Which one is worse? Chronic or acute injury? Or are they actually the same thing? Are acute injuries a product of chronic destruction? Or are they both? Certainly the damage from an acute injury can result in chronic pain. Of course, some acute injuries are a product of a major accident, but some are just chronically worn parts that finally fail, yet are labeled “an accident.” In many instances, I believe that avoiding chronic wear does reduce your chance for acute injury, as we often fail at our weakest link.

Consider who you really are. If you are training as a paid athlete, you take risks – you are expected to. It is your career and your job to win, and so, you are aware that your hard training and sport might have consequences down the line. Are you training hard and competing hard because it is fun? You may want to contemplate the cost benefit of your competitive journey and what it might mean in ten to twenty years.

The Difference Between a Nova and a Ferrari

I see our bodies like cars. Some people come into a training situation like an old Nova and get right in there and race with the Ferraris. This is downright dangerous. You can give the Nova a tune-up, but you won’t ever make it a Ferrari! And to dream that you might get that Ferrari status is a false hope (sorry). That being said, the Nova can do just fine – if you do the right maintenance, drive her conservatively, and realize this important fact: she is a Nova!

Now, let us say that both the Ferrari and the Nova are racing and crash into a wall, sustaining destructive injuries to both cars, except that the Ferrari has a crumple zone and the Nova bursts into flames. Where am I going with this in the realm of training? Well, you can improve and become great at your exercise modality by getting strong and stable and perfecting your movement patterns to protect your joints. You may even become a classic amongst Novas. I encourage you to do that. Just realize what kind of parts you are working with. Will your joints hold? If they seem to be holding now, will they in the future? And how can you ensure that you are doing what you can to preserve and protect yourself so that you can be fit, along with maintaining a strong healthy body, down the road?

The Necessity of an Experienced Trainer

Here is where you need an experienced trainer. An inexperienced trainer may not know what they don’t know, and that is where it looks like the blind leading the willing. So, before you take part in a new fitness endeavor, make sure you know if your tires are bald before you decide to peel out – and your sidewalls blow off! This might mean the burpee challenge is not for you, especially if you have shoulder stability issues. And, your trainer, if experienced, will be cognitive of your strengths, as well as your weaknesses and be able to advise you accordingly.

Chronic injuries creep up on us usually from wear and tear, and they can also increase your risk for an acute injury. Jumping headlong into intense, repetitive, and unfamiliar motions can cause acute injury that turns chronic. There is no way we can avoid all danger, but we can use our heads and decide the correct path for ourselves. Accidents happen and we want to withstand them with the highest resilience possible.

Make sure your trainer is experienced and recognizes what kind of person he or she is working with. If a trainer never holds you back, ask why. Because if he or she is treating you like a Ferrari and you are really a Nova, there might be an unexpected repair bill – and that will be your responsibility.

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Nova ad by Chevrolet pre-1978 (Chevrolet Ad – Time Magazine) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

Nova photo by IFCAR (Own work) [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons.

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