What has always bothered me about the fitness community is that it seems everyone is unaware or at least not emphasing enough how important Sleep is. Sleep is everything. Sleep is the difference between recovering, adapting and hopefully super-compensating from training or failing to recover, gathering too much fatigue that you essentially overtrain and put yourself at risk of injury, train with volume you can't adapt from or even effectively drive effectively and basically waste your time or even worse adding WEEKS to being able to recover from long term fatigue. First off if that's you right now then I URGE you to deload ASAP sleep an extra hour a night for that deload, increase your carbs and reduce life stress because if you don't you'll be asking to stall your progress and accumulate high levels of stress. Anyways Sleep is important so now that I got your attention remember that sleep should be your number One priority for training progress.
Adventures Drain You Physically but Reinvigorate You Mentally
Sleep is the king of recovery but stepping outside your bubble of comfort and fulfilling some desires that are less conventional and habitual in nature such as traveling, skydiving or even as simple as seeing a movie or going out for dinner can refill you with mental energy. Be careful of big trips and things that affect your physical recovery capabillities but don't avoid them. Just like my spontaneous trip to France it was oh so tiring but damn was it beautiful and inspiring, we all need a little Paris in our lives.
Tip:
Cheat meals, traveling, deloads occasional unplanned off days and quality family/friend time is the secret sauce to adherence which in the long game of the fitness journey is everything
Sweet Dreams and Happy travels
-Mr Wolf
I just want to say that all your blogs and this page i itself is so helpful and inspiring. I originally wanted to get really strong but with my really recent diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis I don't know if that's possible. I'm wondering if you know of that or similar diseases and how to get, increase muscle, and maintain while dealing with neurological and muscular breakdown diseases. I'm inspired that you know so much about recovery and injuries that I'm hoping I might see a blog about this in the future. Thanks Mr Wolf!🙂