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Post by daustin on Nov 5, 2017 12:32:15 GMT -7
To continue the off-topic derail... I've still got a few months to go before I'm 30, but during a recent trip to visit my family back on the east coast, I was pleasantly surprised by a gift my sister found for me at the "swap shop" of our local dump*: *The swap shop is perhaps the single most common source of gifts among my family, and there are some real treasures to be found. Case in point being PRC!
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Post by jetjackson on Nov 5, 2017 21:02:54 GMT -7
Strangely the limiting factor for my ARCing now is my feet. I'm at 2-10 degrees overhanging, which means I stand on my feet quite a bit and my big toes are sore by the end of the session. Do you ever experience this? Big time, my toes are always sore after ARC, particularly as I've usually come off the back of a couple of weeks rest.
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Post by mclay on Nov 6, 2017 2:37:23 GMT -7
Strangely the limiting factor for my ARCing now is my feet. I'm at 2-10 degrees overhanging, which means I stand on my feet quite a bit and my big toes are sore by the end of the session. Do you ever experience this? My first several ARC phases the foot pain was a limiting factor, especially once I was trying to do 30+ min sets. It got better eventually but a few things that helped. - Wearing more comfortable shoes - my early mistake was ARC-ing my primary outdoor shoe that was sized down. Switched to size closer to street size really helped
- Foot care after workouts - initially due to pain I started to do a little routine to care for my feet after ARC sessions and during recovery. Things like self-massage with a tennis ball or a wooden dowel really make a difference. Also I found that paying attention to your toes the way you would if you were trying to keep good skin on your fingers helped.
- Learning to relax your feet while focusing on the amount of tension on your feet - this came about almost by accident as I was doing skill development for footwork. In my beginning cycles I had no idea what foot/body tension was, but as I did the drills to try to improve I realized that I often was putting way too much pressure onto my feet during ARC-ing that wasn't needed. Some times you need 100% pressure to a foothold, but not always. In doing awareness drills I realized I was keeping tension in ankles when I didn't have to.
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Post by srossabi42 on Nov 6, 2017 8:29:28 GMT -7
Congrats on your ARC improvement! I'm doing 15 min ARC sessions with 10 min break... 5 min rest would be substantially harder I think. Have you tried it yet? Strangely the limiting factor for my ARCing now is my feet. I'm at 2-10 degrees overhanging, which means I stand on my feet quite a bit and my big toes are sore by the end of the session. Do you ever experience this? Thanks! I have tried it, i was fatigued but not pumped when i started the second set, i'm not sure that i would have felt much fresher if i had rested 10 min. i think if you're still feeling pretty pumped after 5 min rest it would probably be better to rest until the pump subsides than to start your next set i haven't had too much foot soreness from ARCing, the suggestions above sound like they would be helpful, i would add that i usually ARC in a shoe with a relatively stiff sole (evolv nexxo at the moment) which i think helps
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