Ask yourself what is more important. Running from a liion or healing a cold?

The sympathetic stress response (fight or flight) we put ourselves in is designed to put fight or flight first over EVRYTHING else.

Dealing with that cancer is not important when a lion is chasing you. Repair is not important when a lion is chasing you.

If you are stessed at work, at home, stress yourself before bed, stressed from not sleeping, stressed from the toxic foods you eat and then go add training stress...what time do you have for recovery, repair, building???

The more recovery we have the more stress we can add.

The less stress we have over all the more exercise stress we can add.

The more money you put in the bank the more you can take out. Its that simple in concept.

So if you have a cold and you exercise you are shutting down the healing response because a lion chasing you is a bigger priority than a cold.


I'm not suggesting do nothing. But maybe some light shadow eyes closed and do visualization. Hell sit a do visualization. plenty of studies on that that show how effective it is.

One story of a woman who couldn't train (I forget if it was a car accident or what) but she visualized her race daily. This is for the olympics by the way. I think when she could finally train she had a month or something stupid... anyway she did awesome. Maybe a personal best and or won, I forget...

Point is there is plenty of training we can do that is extremely effective without running down our body even more.

Sitting and visualizing may be a powerful training tool and in our overstressed culture and lifestyle sitting and visualizing helps bring us closer into balance as it is a recovery, repair (parasympathetic) exercise.

Plenty of studies show the relative comparrison from training physically and from visualizing.

Over use it and it will break down.

Visualization helps bring you into deeper self awareness also I think and would help with the 'zone'.

feelings and emotions are huge too. Seeing myself and those around me change when coming into balance is pretty cool.

Road rage, getting angry at family or gf etc.. frustrated at work. They are all signs of imbalance (though could because of other things... but they are always signals-funny when you change someones diet and hydration how their mood changes)

Enjoy the journey and keep us posted :)