Is Your Pal Called Moderation?
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According to one saying, "At spring training
camp, you create the base for the season's failures".
A good many athletes, and other fitness
enthusiasts with specific goals in mind, train in
excellent conditions and without everyday responsibilities
-and at the same time too much
and too hard.
You'd need more than the fingers of one hand
to count the number of cases in which an athlete
from whom much was expected in the summer
season returned from an important camp sick,
injured, worn out, or just bored to death with the
whole thing. Tough goals have to be forgotten and
plans shifted into the far future.
A camp will be most successful when you
prepare for it carefully in advance and take your
best buddy along with you on every training session:
Moderation.
When Moderation is with you, he will usually
see to it that improving sessions are sufficiently
intense and recovery sessions do exactly what
they are supposed to. And Moderation is not
completely straight-laced: sometimes he allows
you to get a little revved up. When, for example,
the whole group sets off on an uphill spurt, Moderation
closes his eyes for a moment and hands
the baton to his brother Enthusiasm. However,
Enthusiasm cannot be allowed to set the pace for
long.
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If Moderation doesn't belong to your own
close circle of friends, you can take your own
personal trainer with you to help - a Suunto t6 wristop
computer.
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