You're not supposed to bonk in most athletic events -- maximum output is not synonymous with bonking.
As an Athletic person, you should know what your body feels like when you bonk. You need to know what kind of desperate thoughts go through your head when you bonk. When you bonk it needs to be familiar, like when the uncle you don't really like shows up at the front door. You have to smile and deal with it. Just call him Uncle Bonk.
To find Uncle Bonk, a dear friend of mine recommends that you swim 2 to 4 hours with minimal food (not drink) or go ride your bike 6 or 8 hours with minimal calories. Get out there and BRING IT and no matter how you choose to do it, all you have to do is expend more calories than you take in for a few hours and you'll see Uncle Bonk.
Why would you want to do it? Well, to know what it feels like for one. That way you know what you DON"T want to be doing in a workout as well as be prepared to 'fix it'. You'd also want to do it if you were going to swim the English Channel...because as my friend says "You'll see him in the Channel".
Again, I'm not recommending that you try to Bonk on a regular basis but, purposefully performing a Bonk would be beneficial as it would allow you to know what the stages of the Bonk are and allow you to grow and be prepared to deal with the impacts should they occur in the future.
8. Work your plan the best you can. Nobody executes their plan 100%. You do the best you can, but life happens. Don't beat yourself up about deviations from the plan. It's okay, you are still a good person. The line you walk is beating yourself up versus doing all you can. In the end, the Channel will decide if you did enough.
As an Athletic person, you should know what your body feels like when you bonk. You need to know what kind of desperate thoughts go through your head when you bonk. When you bonk it needs to be familiar, like when the uncle you don't really like shows up at the front door. You have to smile and deal with it. Just call him Uncle Bonk.
To find Uncle Bonk, a dear friend of mine recommends that you swim 2 to 4 hours with minimal food (not drink) or go ride your bike 6 or 8 hours with minimal calories. Get out there and BRING IT and no matter how you choose to do it, all you have to do is expend more calories than you take in for a few hours and you'll see Uncle Bonk.
Why would you want to do it? Well, to know what it feels like for one. That way you know what you DON"T want to be doing in a workout as well as be prepared to 'fix it'. You'd also want to do it if you were going to swim the English Channel...because as my friend says "You'll see him in the Channel".
Again, I'm not recommending that you try to Bonk on a regular basis but, purposefully performing a Bonk would be beneficial as it would allow you to know what the stages of the Bonk are and allow you to grow and be prepared to deal with the impacts should they occur in the future.
8. Work your plan the best you can. Nobody executes their plan 100%. You do the best you can, but life happens. Don't beat yourself up about deviations from the plan. It's okay, you are still a good person. The line you walk is beating yourself up versus doing all you can. In the end, the Channel will decide if you did enough.
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