One of my greatest struggles as an athlete is taking rest. Deep down I suspect it’s either an addiction to the endorphins that shoot through my brain during and after a workout or an addiction to that feeling of soreness that comes with a really tough workout.
Mentally I fight the “just get up and get on it” over the “take the rest your body needs”.
I’ve been injury free for a long time, but it’s only recently that I’ve incorporated more rest days.
It hasn’t been without a mental struggle, but my body is FINALLY starting to progress to heavier loads. Yesterday I wrote about trusting the process and its high time I lived strictly by that rule.
When you are surrounded by good trainers, set your ego aside, listen, and apply, results will start showing.
Overtraining is very common once you achieved your initial weight-loss goals because then you are ready to step up your game and make good even better. You raise your own bar, rightly so. Unfortunately, you tend to get stubborn and think that basic rules no longer apply to you. Wrong.
For me, it’s the strong, selfish desire to never go back to that obese body I was once trapped in. Now I trust myself enough to know that I won’t ever go back. Now I trust the process.
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