Sheepdog Tip of the Day, Before Combat tip 150
Your body is designed to adapt to the stress placed on it. Let's say you decide you are going to start working out. Your goal is to lose a little weight and just be active. On Monday morning you get up, hop on the treadmill, and crank it up to a 20-minute-per-mile pace. About 30 minutes later, you have covered a little more than a mile and worked up a bit of a sweat. Your body is warm, and you are feeling great. You get up Tuesday morning and do the same thing. Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday are repeats of Monday's routine. You take the weekend off, and Monday morning of your second week comes along, and you don't even break a sweat now. Maybe you are a little bored because you are not feeling challenged. What has happened? Your body as adapted to the stress of accomplishing the workload you are placing on it. Now, you are more fit than you were before, but you are not going to continue to get more fit by maintaining the same program.
Christopher Brennan, The Combat Position: Achieving Firefighter Readiness
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