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To the CrossFit Games 2022 has been unplanned and, in many ways, inadvertent. After my 2018 appearance (13th) I returned home broken. I left home damaged and returned worse. Several surgeries and months of rehab work got me back to working out but as far as my competitive CrossFit career was concerned it was over. After three appearances at the Games, lots of success in the open, and qualifiers it was time to stop the obsession.
The pandemic came and went. I did the open in 2021
and the qualifier but nowhere near as seriously as years past. All the workouts
were one and done and the results were Ok but not top tier. And I was more than
OK with those results. Life was much more harmonious without obsessively working out or following a strict diet plan.
In December of 2021 Invictus Masters started some
zone 2 training workouts as part of their regular weekly programming. To my
great frustration, these were hard to do. The hardest part? Going slow! My brain
and body rebelled against the basic philosophy of going slow to go fast. But I
stuck to it. Without really realizing what was happening my base level of
fitness improved. Neuro-muscular adaptation took place. Slow-twitch muscle
fiber got activated and put to work. Heart rate recovery improved.
I continued with the regularly scheduled programming
and added some of these Zone 2 workouts on my own. Then the 2022 CrossFit Games
Open rolled around.
Continued next week!
John Mariotti
www.sundsay-stories.blogspot.com
775-338-2412
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