Client Story: Are You Being A Wuss?

During December I was talking with one of my favorite clients, a small business owner with a lot on his mind.  December is the busiest time of year for him, as it likely is for you – personal demands, year end things to tie up, general wackiness in the air.  Because there was so much going on, I slipped into triage mode, as in, let’s just get through December, and in January we can look at new goals, renewing ideas that we haven’t completed yet, and the like.  His response was something like, “Time’s wasting on these items and I need to get them done. I’m just being a wuss.”

Whoa.

I have rarely known any person who works as hard as this man does, and who has this great a capacity to get stuff done and move his goals along.  And here he was calling himself a wuss because during the busiest month of the year he was having trouble keeping everything going along as normal, as well as take time to plan for the future.  I’m all for future planning, but let’s do it when we’ve got our brains and energy levels more at our disposal…which leads me back to my time at Tour de Coach.  Chris Carmichael was asked what to do when you’ve over trained, and his answer was there’s no such thing as over training, just under recovering.  This man was over training with minimal recovery time, which is a sure recipe for burnout.  It’s like running your car without checking the oil, and eventually the oil runs out and the engine seizes up — the car just stops, metal on metal.  If you are an over trainer, please do yourself a favor and set aside adequate recovery time; the recovery time should be enough for you to feel refreshed and ready to get back to it.  Sometimes less really is more.

Today’s question and action: Where are you over training and under recovering? What can you do – today – to restore some balance and get refreshed?

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