Practice

Open-monitoring meditation

Once the breath is steady, stop steering. Watching what shows up is its own skill.

Calm · Practice · members

Focused-attention meditation

Start on the breath. Don't start by watching whatever floats through your head.

Focus · Practice · members

Nocebo avoidance

Stop reading side-effect forums before your first dose.

Calm · Practice · members

Open-label placebo

Judge a supplement on a number you can measure, never on how it makes you feel.

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Return-to-play / return-to-sport criteria

Treat the return-to-sport tests as a floor, and keep rehabbing after you pass.

Strength · Practice · members

Acute:chronic workload ratio

Stop training to your load ratio. It doesn't predict who gets hurt.

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HRV-guided training

Let this morning's HRV pick today's session. Bin the plan on the fridge.

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Overtraining markers

Stop buying cortisol panels. Overtraining shows up as your lifts falling for weeks.

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Tapering

Halve your training volume for the two weeks before the race. Keep the pace.

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Deloads

Take the light week when your top set drops, not when the calendar says week four.

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