Episode 160: The Down: The missing ingredient to your training

What do you do when an athlete is headed in the wrong direction, when their performance doesn’t match up with their training? You give them a down week. This oft-neglected component to training is essential. Too often, we schedule in down weeks once every 4 weeks, when we should have more flexibility for when we apply this stimulus that allows our athletes to get in the right balance between stress and rest.

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