The Hidden Factor Holding Back Your Athletic Progress

When most people think about training, they focus on the “working” side of things – running, lifting, jumping. But what if you keep showing up and still aren’t seeing results? You’re not getting stronger, faster, leaner, or more muscular.

What’s going wrong?

More likely than not, you’re focusing on the wrong thing.

It’s the recovery, stupid!
You see, many people assume that recovery is something that just happens automatically if they train hard enough.

It doesn’t.

Or rather, it does, but only to a certain extent – often just enough to leave you no better off than you were a week or a month ago.

Why?

Remember, training doesn’t build your body. Training breaks it down. Training tears, agitates, and damages.

Recovery rebuilds. Training destroys, recovery rebuilds. That’s how training process works.

The extent of that rebuilding depends on what you do in the period between training sessions:

What you eat. How you rest. How well you manage and reduce excessive stress in your life.

And guess what. As we age, it’s not our ability to train hard that diminishes. You can train just as hard as before.

However. Your ability to recover does decline.

And this, ultimately, is what holds you back from improving. If you want to keep improving, this is where you need to look.