Carrying out great training is not just a matter of conducting tough, high-quality workouts. If reaching one’s potential depended solely on training very hard, all resolute athletes would be in top form. But just a small percentage of them actually reach their pinnacle of fitness.
And why is that? The reason is not that athletes are lazy; most work very hard. The real problem is that high-quality work is a double-edged sword: it can lead you to your highest-possible level of performance, or it can destroy your ability to perform as well as you can, it is a clear result when your immune system is interrupted by too much hard exercise.
Doing too much hard training can devastate your muscles, harass your hormonal system and implode your immune system. Strenuous training must be balanced optimally with rest and recovery in order to reach the mountain-top.
Unfortunately, identifying the right balance of hard work and recovery is the most difficult part of serious training. If your training program has too much recovery, you won’t be able to carry out enough quality work to reach your peak. If your schedule has too little recovery, muscles won’t be able to repair themselves properly after workouts. Performances actually worsen instead of getting better.
The leading training newsletter Peak Performance reports that recovery should be so well understood and actively enhanced that it becomes a determinant component in training.
Peak Performance explains that recovery must do more than simply rest the muscles; it must actually move fitness upward.
For that to be true, you must completely understand recovery. You must know exactly what recovery is and precisely how long it takes.
The key is you must learn techniques for increasing your speed of recovery, so that the amount of quality work you do can be progressively expanded.
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