Fight or flight
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Start easy. Finish strong. We can learn a lot from the sport-psychologists and mental toughness coaches. Control the breath, set short-term (achieveable) goals, maintain a positive attitude and create the appropriate imagery of achieving what you want to achieve.
See also: "At a physical level, physical training will grow your brain. And that has been proven, science is behind that, backs it up. Physical training, when you get into more complicated things, like gymnastics or learning the olympic lifts or learning new and different things […] training [with ] constantly varied functional movements, done in a unique way, every single day, with the big four skills of mental toughness placed into that; develop things like Courage, and Honour, and Discipline; that will develop mental toughness" https://bartvanbroekhoven.com/en-US/210-why-train
Portable parkour
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Haarlem, today. It is fear that leads to injury. It is courage that leads to recovery.
The benefit of trail running in the open is the rhythm, the experience, the 'consumption' of the landscape. The benefit of the treadmill lies in injury control and recovery. Running on a machine is a reversed system of running. Creating a landscape digitally by consciously adjusting the speed and the inclination of the running surface by remote control. Bringing in essential variation. It is an excellent tool to support controlled recovery from an injury. Driving it out of the system. Designing the responsibility to heal.
Snack
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Evening snack. Clock wise, from left: ginger, avocado, red pepper, green tea, cashew nuts, little salt and some Thai chili sauce.
“You can tell a lot about a fellow's character by his way of eating jellybeans.”
Ronald Reagan
