Soviet Olympic dominance in the 1950s came from a training philosophy that built in rest and recovery instead of constant pushing. Most modern people are under-renewed and over-exerted, which hurts both performance and well-being.
After the Olympics in the 1950s, when the USSR or the Soviets won the Olympics or just crushed the Olympics, but they had their Olympic team and the training team surged forward and they won so many medals because they had a huge emphasis on renewal that Western athletes didn't. And so if you look at ourselves as an athlete, then it makes more sense that we're not a human machine, we're not a human doing, we're a human being. Which means we gotta exert and then renew. So that's the overarching principle of everything here, is most of us are under-renewed and over-exerted. Under-renewed and over-exerted.
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