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Thought: recovery is more about restoring order than energy. What is truly exhausting is not energy expenditure but entropy increase. Structured expenditure of energy, like a run or gym session are actually restorative overall, and locally (muscles) quick recovery.
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In addition to recovery, optimal training looks a lot like mediocre performance. There are either a bunch of interesting connections to make here, or I'm simply mapping to one of my few modes of thinking readily available.
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Poor comparison. If only choosing one, intensity is better and has a lower burnout risk. Optimal is actually more like alpinism training where base of 'easy' training is combined with small amount of well-timed peaking... hmm, proper endurance training ~= @vgr's mediocrity theory
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Chinese weightlifting team will play a light game of basketball or table tennis or jog on their 'day off'. Ilya Ilyin took 6 months off after winning the Olympics, just swimming and other light workouts. Won World's 11 months later
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