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Athletes in Isolation #1 . (5min read) . As an athlete your priority should be to return to competition ready for the demands of the sport as soon as you start . With that said, let's look at how we can maintain fitness and ease back into competition with preparation . Both strength and fitness qualities need to be maintained. We are afforded the luxury during this "off-season" to train harder and generate more fatigue . General strength should be priority #1 during the next few months. General strength will build muscle to help protect joints from injury during collisions and also assist in the development of other qualities later on. This can be achieved through high volume, high intensity and low-moderate weight training. This involves 10-20 sets of 8-15reps and per muscle, per week (exercises to be performed for longer than 40secs). Choosing 2 compound movements and 1-2 isolation movements per muscle is good for ensuring adequate muscle development. . Power developmen...

In these trying times we are presented with a number of ways that we can choose to view our circumstances... We can choose to allow ourselves to succumb to circumstance. This might be easier for us because we protect ourselves from any accountability. However, in doing so we have no power to change our circumstance. We can be robust. We can resist the circumstance and thus become immune to it's negative effects. We are contempt with the external environment, choosing not to play victim. We can take a third approach too. We can be, as author Nassim Taleb explains, "antifragile". The power to resist change and grow from it. The power to turn a negative to a positive. The power to mould your circumstance into something that benefits you and the people around you. Strength to us isn't just about resistance, it's about adaptation. Stay strong. Train hard.