I finally have a day off for some Ken time. Great opportunity to head over to my running track for 5 x 200 m sprints. -walk back intervals. The last time I had an opportunity to do 200-meter sprints, courtesy of space to do them and the time, was back in early April on the Gold Coast.
The start line is where I’m standing, and the finish line is a little bit further than the bush that you see just over my right shoulder. I had to run into the breeze, which is purple, hands bloody chilly.
Nonetheless, I was really happy with my ease of effort and my maintenance of speed past the finish line.
I am only managing to fit in a couple of weight training workouts a week, so I have to rely more on my sprints to clear my head and maintain my composure under stress.
On that note, just a tip on how the brain actually works. The brain does not know why you feel uncomfortable – perhaps emotionally over-responding to your own efforts.
Sprinting, for example, is just something your body can do. It does not get or care about your subjective emotional responses to your own application of your effort.
The brain’s interpretation would more likely be that you’re being attacked or invaded by something that you need to defend yourself against, and therefore it responds to what you’re doing in a negative, protective way instead of an adaptive growth state.
As we can only ever be in one of those two possible states at any point in time – growth or protection.
The whole idea is to be able to do something like a 200 m sprint and then walk away as if nothing happened and remind yourself that the brain does not care one bit about any emotional hissy fits on your return to the starting line.
Post-intense exercise inflammation will be negligible with the right composed attitude. Getting all hacked up and grimacing facial expressions that indicate you are in pain. Will certainly get your immune system interested, which will produce a lot more inflammation than it should. Your levels of inflammation and your emotional states are constantly sensitively dependent upon one another.
