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Over training is an issue on this program. This is the forth time I’ve gotten to day 68 and my body is just not doing it anymore.
I’m over 40 now and the built up fatigue and muscle strain is real. I just feel like the day after I ran a marathon or something. My entire body hurts and training makes it worse.
When I’m feeling just fatigued and soreness working out actually feels better. I get up, I get moving, and some of the pain and fatigue magically go away. I love it when that happens.
Right now I’m feeling over trained. Walking and hiking 4 miles a morning is getting to me. And I know my body needs a break.
But this is the last part of the75 Hard Challenge. The pain becomes real, and you have to deal with real physical challenges.
The 75 Hard Challenge is not for your physical fitness. It’s for your mental toughness. This is where your mental roughness has to kick into another gear.
If this was purely physical, I’d just take a day or two off of exercise and training and be as good as new. Nope, I have to push through the over training to get the mental toughness I am looking for.
Now that I know I’m over trained I will slow down on my actual training. At this point in the game I’m just exercising. I’m not trying to hit any goals during my workouts or get anything better physically. That’s how you have an over use injury. Those can be the worst.
So I am slowing down my workouts. It’s not about putting 50 pounds on my back and going for a 4 mile hike as fast as I can. It’s about getting out there and walking 3 miles at a time at about a 3 mile an hour pace. I’m not going to get more physically fit for the next seven days, but I will finish the 75 day challenge. Over training or not.
All I have to do to win the day is light exercise. Whether you are doing a true 75 Hard by doing 2 workouts a day, or modified like me, and doing only 1 workout a day, you can scale it back and make it light. Just hit your time marks. You can do this.
75 Hard I will Conquer,
Ben Branam
