I don’t know when overtraining became a thing, I am just grateful I didn’t ever know about it when I was young. When I was coming up, busting your ass is just what you did to make up ground when you lacked talent and natural ability. All I knew was that there were 24 hours in a day and for me to level the playing field, it required me to push myself every single day of my life.
On the days I felt tired, I found different ways to push myself. There were several days the body didn’t want to function or do what what was required so I found things I could do to still get better.
Sometimes you have to bump up against science to get to where you want to go.
Like I always say, there are levels to this s***. I know a guy who ran 70 miles each day for 40 days. If you slowly allow your body to adapt to the workload, your body will become a well-oiled machine capable of doing things you once thought were impossible.
For a lot of you out here, I know this hurts your ****ing ears. You will say “don’t listen to this guy, he is going to injure you,” “he is going to push you to overtrain.” This is the exact kind of talk that keeps people from finding out what is truly possible.
Perfect example- this summer, I worked with a group of 60 people, 90% of whom didn’t even run, some hadn’t run in years. I told people that I was going to run a marathon and extended the invitation to anyone who wanted to join me. Just 4 weeks later all but a few people did it and the pride they felt afterwards was hard to put into words. There was no training block or program, people just signed up and were willing to try. And every single one that signed up, completed it.
Half of us can’t do because we don’t believe we can do! Mindset is a mother****er!
Stay hard.