Getting Rest While Sporting
Last week I finished week 5 of my schedule. It was a strange week, mostly because of the snow and ice, so I couldn’t do my runs, which made me feel bad. But I overcompensated by doing some extra snowboarding.
Week 5 was also a strange week because it was actually some sort of rest week. In the first 4 weeks I increased intensity and volume of the different sports. But as I’ve learned in the past, it’s just mentally and also physically impossible to keep growing all the time. Sometimes you need a rest.
For fitness I always took a week off, after 6 weeks of training. But this seemed to be counterproductive, because of two reasons; I lost strength, but also motivation to start again. So this time I’m doing it differently.
This time I keep to my normal schedule. So the volume will not differ that much. But the intensity in the week is going down for a notch or two. This way I can still workout and keep my rhythm, but I’m not as afraid as normally when I have leg-day in the weight room. 
I must say it worked out perfectly. I did my hours of sports, but definitely on a different level, which leaves me fresh to start week 6 today again with some more intensity and the will to improve once again.