Easy Difficult vs. Difficult Difficult

For a while, I was training around three hours a day. Gymnastics. Weightlifting. Crossfit. And whenever I felt like something wasn't progressing fast enough, I'd add more.

The problem?

Nothing was where I wanted it to be. So I figured I needed to work on everything.

Eventually, my body started giving me some pretty loud feedback. Little injuries. Aches. Soreness that would last a week. And scariest of all: I started not wanting to train.

If you know you that I LOVE training. I live for it, look forward to it, plan my day around it.

So when I realized I was avoiding it, I knew something had to change.

The easy choice would've been to start another high-intensity program. (You see a theme?)

The harder choice was doing the opposite. (It's still scary and hard because what if it doesn't work out?) I signed up for a completely different approach. Low intensity. Low volume. Gymnastics and lifting stripped down to the bare-bones basics.

And we stayed there until my recovery signals told us I was ready for more.

That was much harder for me than doing three hours of training. I had to sit with the feeling that I wasn't doing enough. Sometimes the best path forward isn't doing more. It can be having courage to sit what the data in front of you, and choose not to ignore it.

What data are you ignoring?