This isn’t your first rodeo, as the saying goes. This time it's different though.

This time, it's you, your body, mind, and your life that all contend for your attention and care.

You ache as you have never ached, you have been tried before but not like this. Many days

feel like a stale heat that robs you of your energy and paradoxically, you have more energy than

ever.

Perhaps you have reached your fitness goals, maybe you trimmed a few pounds or added some

muscle. In the meantime, you also have kick-started your metabolism and learned about the

needs of your body and your mind to keep going as often as you can and as hard as you can.

This is a good thing, right? You have sacrificed to reach the point where you are but the shine

has worn off, the novelty, the completion, all seem to be slipping away.

Today you don’t feel up to it. You feel like planets are hanging from your eyelids and yesterday's

workout still burns like wildfire in every fiber of your body. How will you get through your next

workout, let alone the next week, month, or year?

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