Body & Recovery
Why rest isn't restoring you
Stopping work isn't the same as recovering from it. Most evenings swap one demand for another. A body can end a restful evening with less in the tank than it started with.
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Load, adaptation, and the work that happens after the effort
Adaptation is not banked during the effort. It is banked afterwards, and only if the conditions allow it. This section is about the relationship between demand and capacity: what recovery actually requires, why rest and recovery are not the same thing, and how the cost of adaptation accumulates when the second half of the cycle never arrives.
Body & Recovery
Eustress vs. distress: how to tell whether stress is helping or harming you
Selye's own rats showed that the body answers demand without much care for its source. The good-stress and bad-stress split that followed is a misreading, and it points readers at the wrong question.
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