29/04/2026
RECOVERYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!👊👏👊👏👊👏
The young ones stagnate or get slower and can't figure out why. The older ones get hurt. Different outcomes, same root cause they are not giving the body the time it needs to resolve or heal what the training demanded that it do.
Recovery is not the absence of training. It is where the training adaptations happen. Muscle proteins are synthesized. Tendons remodel. Mitochondria multiply. The parasympathetic nervous system reasserts control, HRV climbs back, and the body consolidates what the last session started.
None of that happens during the workout. It happens in the hours and days after.
The older we get, the longer that process takes and the more it costs us when we shortchange it. The recovery burden increases with age. The same session that took 48 hours to recover from at 35 takes 72 to 96 hours at 55. Push back into hard training before that process is complete and you are not building fitness. You are accumulating damage.
Rest up. Cross train, walk, ruck, hike instead of run. Train again when you're ready. That is how adaptation and thriving works.
