How To Measure Recovery

August 27, 2025

A real practical measure of how well you're recovering as you train or as you work is: can you go and do your skill immediately after a training session?

 If you can't, it's not necessarily a problem. It's not something that you have to be worried about. It's not something that you have to be anxious about. But if you can't go do your skill right after you get done with your training, it means that there is a degree or level of improvement that can be had in the efficiency of how you move and how you operate, how you think, and the emotions that you have. Right? That's the basic concept of a slow lower, right? 

If we look at a smaller scale, a slow lower is one exercise, Let's say we take a deep pushup. The goal with that slow lower deep pushup is to press up at the end, as if you just didn't do three to five minutes of work, right? So that you're training yourself to recover as you work.

If we take that principle and put it on a larger scale, you do your whole training session, and after your whole training session, you can still go do your skill— As good as if you hadn't trained, or better than if you hadn't trained. That is a great measure of how well you're actually recovering as you work, as an athlete or as a human being.

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