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Consistency Over Intensity

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Training to Failure Often Hurts More Than It Helps

Training to failure often hurts more than it helps, versus not training to failure. When you're brand new, you don't have a capacity to do much. Once you develop some fitness, once you develop a capacity, then suddenly hard is actually hard. And there's just no way that the mind body system can adapt to repeated efforts like that. So every once whileis good to almost reset and remind like, oh, this is what really hard or everything i got feels like. But you only want to go there a handful of times a year.

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