If you are exhausted, you haven’t trained properly or trained enough. For years, hard work, more sweat, more intensity, more punishment, was glorified.
But times have changed – and so has what works.
Today the importance of intentional work is what will set you up for success. Intentional work means taking responsibility for your own well-being, future planning, recognising things that work and things that don’t. Recognising when you feel fatigue and should cut back; or when to push for that extra session.
What this may look like in a gym sense:
- Planning strength sessions to leave you feeling pumped, strong, more resilient; rather than sore for a week after.
- Cardio that builds fitness, tailored to your goals, leaves you feeling motivated, rather than destroying your central nervous system and disrupting recovery/sleep.
- Eating foods that help you perform and recover well; not make you feel like giving up.
And most importantly, planning rest days that help you recover and leave you feeling the ‘itch’ to train the following day.
We want to think about building up; rather than burning out. Therefore, we want to find a routine and lifestyle that allows us to be consistently ‘good’ at showing up; not occasionally ‘great’.
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