Subject: Where do you draw the line? I've been doing a lot of research lately into health, nutrition, training, etc. I've convered a variety of things including:
- High fat diets
- Removing dairy, grains, legumes, etc
- Cold water therapy
- High intensity interval training
- Boosting myself with every vitamin, mineral, pill and potion available
- Yoga/meditation/pilates
- Dynamic stretching
- Breathing exercises
- Compression gear
Any many more that aren't on the top of my head.
Basically, where do you draw the line in the sand and say to yourself that you aren't a professional athlete, you don't have thousands of dollars and hours of free time to devote time to all of these things, or simply, the benefit of getting 5 minutes faster over a certain distance is just not of any interest to you?
Obviously I want to be healthy and be able to enjoy triathlon as much as possible. I've been experimenting with a few of these points above recently and to be honest, the sacrifice of doing some of these things is reducing my overall life happiness all for the sake of recovering faster or improving my muscles to swim/bike/run faster.
So, where do you personally draw the line?
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