i imagine i'll figure out how to overdo it tho.
no doubt. why do we do that? i figured out how to overdo carefully and gradually adding weekly mileage: go for a hike! smh.
a few theories:
1. we get obsessed with things that aren't "natural" (like most athletic obsessed humans)
2. our bodies are more brittle than our brains
3. regardless of what it is, we slowly drift towards "excess"
tbh i think it has to do more with #1.
humans do weird stuff.
i mean training for vert is pretty ridiculous.. what we want, we cannot have, unless we work really hard/smart for it - for a very long time, then we can potentially get a small taste of victory.. then it could be gone in an instant. and throughout that process, there's a high probability of substantial ups & downs, especially due to injury. i think that's just "normal" when things don't make sense. lots of people don't get hurt who just train very "gentle" lol. but they also don't usually make massive transformations in performance - but they are fine with that. so that's cool.
that's one of the problems of having "lofty" athleticism goals.
tbh i'm fine with just running to enjoy it. it'd suck if i couldn't race, but i'd hate to not be able to run slow. this is a major shift from how my basketball/boxing/dunk obsessed days were. i think that's mental progress finally.
it's why i can back off much more easily now when i tweak shit/feel stuff coming on etc. but even with that, racing makes me run harder than i should, which can lead to breakdown.
and now i'm doing crazy high volume lunge shit again, wrecking my glutes/ischial tuberosity's. lmfao.
pc!!
