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The pain is real
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this post was submitted on 15 Nov 2023
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Yes, all of those things. Some runners are afraid to rest because they think they will lose their ability to run if they don't run every day. They're just neurotic. It's okay to rest a day or a week or a month or even a year. I've been distance running since the age of 13 and it's necessary to rest sometimes. There's no shame in resting, and ability to run will not be lost unless there's some irreversible injury, which is rare for most healthy people.
Not a runner, but for me the feeling is that I can workout for 364 days a year, but if I miss one single day, then the habit is broken and it takes the willpower necessary to move a fucking mountain to get back to the gym after that. It feels like I don't built habits no matter how many times I do it.
It's still necessary to rest, but the fear is legit.
It's possible to workout all year long if you ignore your central nervous system ๐
I don't want a central nervous system, I want a central confident system. ๐
(For those who need it, /s, please don't do this)
Won't feel so confident when you become irritable, your training goes to shit, you start losing sleep, you get sick all the time and so on...