Ben Morton explains how elite athletes build performance through cycles of intense training followed by real recovery. Leaders often skip the recovery phase, moving straight from one demanding stretch to the next, which erodes their capacity over time.
Loehr and Schwartz studied elite athletes and discovered something that changed how they think about high performance in our world. You see, elite athletes don't just train harder than everyone else, they recover better. They work in deliberate cycles, periods of high demand followed by genuine recovery. And it's that rhythm stress recovery, stress recovery that builds capacity over time. And more importantly, allows them to perform when they really need to. And in my experience, in many cases, often maybe for leaders, there's no planned recovery. There's no end to the hard stretch. They just continue, one demanding period rolling straight into the next.
