The little indestructible creature clued me into my greatest epiphany; that adaptations to exercise are promotive, rather than the widely believed “protective”.

How so?

When conditions are extremely rough, the little Tardi goes into a low energy/low metabolism state.

To PROTECT itself – to PRESERVE itself.

How does our body respond to exercise?

By creating a physiology of higher energy demands, and higher metabolic rate.

This is anything but protective – this is asking for MORE.

This is challenging the challenge.

Now let’s think about how this applies to “over-training”.

And cardio.

Think about it.

I’ll have my post on the topic up soon.

One way to understand my training methodology is this:

Cycle between programs that ELIMINATE weaknesses and ILLUMINATE strengths, and programs that eliminate strengths and illuminate weaknesses.

Scientific accuracy in a fitness protocol is only possible at the level of microanalysis; also known as the domain most irrelevant to practical application.

The proper blend of intuition and reason to create and constrain your own training.