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Most training mistakes happen in the gray zone between "I feel a bit off" and "I should rest." Articles here cover recovery, sleep, stress, soreness, and how to decide when to back off without losing momentum.
Heavy legs the morning of a workout are common, and the right answer depends on which kind of heavy. Here is a 10-minute warm-up test that separates residual life fatigue from accumulated training fatigue — and the specific call to make in each case: keep the workout, dial it back, swap it, or skip it.
The difference between a training week that works and one that does not is more often in the recovery decisions than the workout decisions. A correctly skipped or eased session keeps the next two weeks on the rails. A "perfect" workout done in the wrong state often costs more than it earns.
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