Activity and Recovery - Mental Training
Training the mind doesn’t seem all that different than training the body. The same principles largely apply, though it’s interesting to see how differently we tend to approach working with our minds than we approach training our bodies. For whatever reason, many people hope for optimal mental function by stuffing ever more information in, without considering time for recovery and integration. Let’s say you were interested in running a fairly long distance – perhaps an event that would take about 2-hours or so. Not the longest running event ever, but definitely not something that could be pulled off simply by mind-over-mattering and gutting through. Preparing for this event would take some training, ideally training that mixed activity with recovery. In training the body, activity balanced by recovery is key to increasing capacity. For example, this morning I did my first longish run of the season. The past few months I’ve mainly been working out on the rowing machine, and I’m pleas