🏋🏽‍♂️ Train…⠀ 😴 Rest…⠀ 🔁 Repeat. ⠀ ⠀ This is the recurring process that must occur for optimal adaptations to training. Many well intentioned coaches and athletes focus solely on the first part - training. ⠀ ⠀ Fitness and training related social media is littered with #grind, #hwpo and ‘rest when I’m dead’ mindsets that would have you believe that getting better is just simply a matter of working harder. Unfortunately, physiology is not swayed by social media hashtags. The body needs time to rest, recover and adapt to the applied training stimulus before it can become better than before the training stimulus was applied. If you short circuit the train-rest-repeat process, you risk sub-optimal adaptations at best and overtraining and injury at worst. ⠀ ⠀ Sadly, for many hard driving coaches and athletes putting in work is not the hard part. Sometimes, for some athletes, taking it easy is the hard part. Show discipline in both your training and recovery and you will reap the rewards....