‘I tell myself that it is often best to stop a bad workout and save my energy for the next one.’‘I tell myself that it is often best to stop a bad workout and save my energy for the next one.’
Most of my runs are circuits, beginning and ending at home; I have lost count of the times I have finished them by bus or train. Hence the popularity of the “streak”, in which you attempt to work out every day, from here to eternity. I have gone down that rabbit hole myself, to the point where I was still doing my scheduled press-ups despite such terrible food poisoning that I couldn’t stray more than a few feet from the toilet.
“It’s easy to overanalyse and be over self-critical, but there really is no need,” he says. “Most of us are not professional athletes, we are simply everyday people doing our best – and sometimes we need to take a day when it feels too much.”, a personal trainer from Oxfordshire, to be more inflexible. He has been cycling up to 160 miles a day since the start of the year, to prepare forfrom London to Amsterdam. But he is surprisingly laid-back.