A friend texted me last night: “Having some achilles pain. Thinking I should take a few days off and stretch.’
The moment I read it I thought of the movie ‘Avatar’ when Jake (the hero) faces down a huge predator in the forest.
‘What do I do? Run? Shoot, what?’
‘Don’t shoot you’ll just piss him off.’
That ferocious beast right there, that’s your aching achilles. And you’re shouting, ‘What do I do? Run? Stretch?”
Don’t stretch. You’ll piss it off.
Einstein’s definition of insanity: ‘doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.’ What about watching other people do the same things over and again while expecting different results? Can that drive you mad? If so I’m cracked. I’ve seen too many people work out too hard, get injured, then return only to work TOO HARD again. Sub maximal training is where the results are. Science says as much.
What would be more valuable? Running a race where everything felt great and I whizzed through 20 miles, won the race and learned nothing new.
Or running hard for 7, losing momentum, beating myself up for 2 miles, then rallying, pushing, scratching my way back to my goal time and learning something along the way.
Are you drinking enough water? Allow me to share an anecdote. A client was talking about how hair dressers/barbers can look at someone and tell how long it’s been since their last haircut.
‘Can you do the same thing with someone’s last workout?’
No. But I can spot my tribe. It’s easy to look someone up and down and assess if they do yoga, free weights, or marathons.
I”d even be able to pick out crossfitters too but they just up and tell you.
There is a supplement for every ailment and I need them all according to every advertisement, blogger, and health expert trying to make a name. I can cure the blues, get the girl and live my best life if I just take their pill. While some claims are dubious at best, there is one supplement that has drastically changed my life.
Common wisdom says when you’re stressed to take a deep breath. Anxious? Deep breath. Nervous? Tired? Overworked? Running? Going to yoga? Take a deep breath. It seems like such sound, inarguably good advice. But what if it wasn’t the best advice. What if instead of breathing deeply we learned to breathe well.
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