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<p>Men are stupid and these sorts of comment just prove it. I go easy on myself when I dont feel like I'm in top condition and I'm the best fencer in my state group.</p>
<p>Work through a little bit of soreness but if you honestly feel like you're going to die, sit out. Exercising usually makes soreness go away faster too :)</p>
<p>Pfft, I could comment on a million ways women could be considered stupid. </p>
<p>If you can't handle it, take your ass home and let someone else on JV whose willing to take it take your sport on varsity.</p>
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<p>That doesn't make much sense. Your muscles need to rest in order to heal. Working out your upper body on Monday will cause it to be sore on Tuesday. Why would you go and work it out again Tuesday to make the soreness go away?</p>
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<p>Mild exercise, you Neanderthal. Do your homework: Delayed</a> onset muscle soreness from OnHealth</p>
<p>And while I don't give a hoot what your opinion on men or women is, I'd like to see you or anyone else in my district take my spot :) Many other good athletes at my school also take it easy some days. As I said, complete rest isn't all that great unless your leg just fell off but pushing yourself until you pass out on the track is only glorious in Rocky Balboa-esu training montages: in real life, it hampers your ability to perform and makes more problems for you to sort out later.</p>
<p>Discuss it with your doctor or trainer instead of a bunch of macho wanna-be schmucks on the internet.</p>
<p>Um, how many people do fencing? It may be hard, but compared to other sports, the level of competition is no where close. How many girls fence in your age group in the whole country? Probably less than 500. Over 250? </p>
<p>Fencing may be a finesse sport, sports that require conditioning like soccer/xc/hockey etc are where you need to give it your all. It is a unique sport, so I am not that impressed from your so called claim of being the "best". Fencing is a lot different than sports most people play in high school.
Isn't a requirement that you have to have a ton of money to fence?</p>
<p>In track, I try to push my body as much as possible. I've passed out after races and workouts, it only makes me stronger. I learn more about my body, and the satisfaction of truly giving it your all. Yes, some days you need to take it easy, but on your hard days you need to give it everything you have.</p>
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Men are stupid and these sorts of comment just prove it. I go easy on myself when I dont feel like I'm in top condition and I'm the best fencer in my state group.
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i'm not going to be rude and say that all girls are stupid because they make remarks like yours but.... ummm you're fencing... that's why lol. most everyone in this thread has been talking about track/XC where you do have to push yourself even when you don't feel like it. that's how you reach the next level of fitness. i once had to run a 16x400m with every 400m getting faster. (the last one was at 60 seconds) i remember feeling like i was going to die afterwards lol. but i didn't i was fine and was able to reach a whole new level of fitness: that's why sports like track/XC are "no pain no gain" sports while fencing is sounds like/probably is a rich kid sport that requires skills but little athleticism.</p>
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<p>Crawl back into your ignorant little hole. You have obviously never fenced or even though about it. Competition is small but it IS cutthroat. </p>
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<p>I do exactly as much work as the track people at my school do, some days more. Running is an idiot's sport; you run! Any skill? probably pacing yourself or wind sprints or how to get out of the starting block tha fastest. Any idiot can run and while I admire the xc people, you don't do nearly the amount of work that I do BECAUSE fencing isn't an instinct that we're all born with. </p>
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<p>Way to make uneducated comments. You may as well ask me if fencing is all about swinging off of chandeliers and pretending I'm someone from Pirates of the Carribean. No, it does not cost a ton of money. I pay for private lessons, my coach, and my gear. That is all.</p>
<p>Beware of making comments on things you have no clue about. Or do the wise thing and keep your trap shut.</p>
<p>OP,</p>
<p>Working through muscle soreness is what makes you a better athlete. There have two seasons which I would consider ridiculous, and that I would rather not repeat since they were so tough, but I came out of both of them with huge time drops. It still baffles me how I handled so much yardage every single day, but I made it through.</p>
<p>If you find yourself really sore, then you should consider warming up/down more if you aren't already. Especially during peak training, our coach gives us long warmups and warmdowns which help get you through the rest of practice. Note that this should be swimming/running/whatever at like 70%, so you're not just barely moving. Stretching a lot also helps.</p>
<p>If you have legitimate pain in your muscles (stinging, not just sore) then you should bring that up with your coach. This probably means there is something wrong with tendons/ligaments which is much more serious. This happened to my knee in swimming, and my coach told me that I just couldn't do breastroke for a week or so. I had to do full practices still, just working the other strokes.</p>
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Crawl back into your ignorant little hole. You have obviously never fenced or even though about it. Competition is small but it IS cutthroat.
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I do exactly as much work as the track people at my school do, some days more. Running is an idiot's sport; you run! Any skill? probably pacing yourself or wind sprints or how to get out of the starting block tha fastest. Any idiot can run and while I admire the xc people, you don't do nearly the amount of work that I do BECAUSE fencing isn't an instinct that we're all born with.
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how about you "crawl back into your ignorant little hole?" you have to be kidding me!!! can you even run a 400m under 60 seconds? i'll bet you more "idiots" can pick up an </p>
<p>Hmm, i feel resting shouldnt be necessary unless your doing a lot of physical activity. My coaches let me rest once in a while because I am training for a marathon, play soccer, and run track and lift weights during 4th period everyday. But if you are just playing one sport once a day you shoud be fine, but if it is really killing you just say your sick so it doesnt look likke you are wimping out of practice</p>
<p>I run three times a day once in the morning, practice, then when I go home. I never gave my body a rest for probably 2-3 months and I ended up pulling a serious msucle, the saratorius (SP?) and i couldnt run for 10 days, today was the first day I could and i ran 10 :). </p>
<p>Use the weekend to rest in my opinion.</p>
<p>"Any idiot can run and while I admire the xc people, you don't do nearly the amount of work that I do BECAUSE fencing isn't an instinct that we're all born with."</p>
<p>HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAH ok, almost done, HAHAHA.</p>
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<p>I run cross country and track and I would never ask for special treatment like that. Take weekends off to cross train instead so you're not working the same tired muscles and keep working during the week to the best of your abilities!</p>