Ho ho ho!  'Tis the season to start panicking about family engagements, Christmas shopping, lack of mileage and that extra piece of cake someone smuggled on to your plate.  I think a lot of people use Christmas as the final deadline for bad athletic behaviour before turning over a new leaf at 12:01am January 1st with newfound zest for training.  Unfortunately, only very highly tuned engines can go from zero to a hundred in a matter of seconds and this is also true of the human body.  Laying off heavily for a month or two to then go back to a heavy workout regime to try to shed pounds and gain fitness in a matter of days is a recipe for injury and illness.  So, how do we get back to the lean, mean, powerful machines we were in late summer without multiple trips to the garage for repairs?  I will go over some of the details that are so often overlooked that should be implemented before heavy training is on the menu.

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