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The Hard Way With Joe De Sena

Can a Spartan Take a Vacation? // WAY 027

The Hard Way With Joe De Sena

Spartan Races

Self-improvement, Health & Fitness, Education

4.8874 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2019

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Rest & recovery are NOT a negative thing for Spartans. In fact, when you work hard, the rest and recovery gives you the much need mental & physical break allowing you to come back stronger, more energized and more inspired.


LESSONS:

Rest & recovery are good for the mind AND body.
Taking a break from the normal stimulus will boost your creativity.
More is not better, Better is Better!


LINKS:
More about Zach https://zacheven-esh.com
Read "The Spartan Way" https://www.spartan.com/en/race/learn-more/race-types-overview?article=the-spartan-way-book


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Zach's STRONG Life Podcast https://apple.co/2vFaCv1

 

CREDITS:

Producer – Marion Abrams, Madmotion, llc.
Host & Show Notes: Zach Even-Esh

© 2019 Spartan

Transcript

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0:00.0

Here's why you need to take a vacation.

0:03.0

Welcome back Spartans to another episode of the Spartan Way podcast. I'm your host Zach Evernesh and in today's lesson I've got a great

0:16.2

Story and tip for you and it comes from a time where I was

0:20.7

grinding and

0:25.0

especially if you're an entrepreneur and I was working seven days a week working day working night

0:30.0

and my wife was setting up a family vacation and as the family vacation was

0:35.6

getting closer and closer literally two weeks prior I said to my wife I

0:40.2

don't think I could take this vacation and she's trying to ask why why don't I want to go and what it came down to is I felt like I didn't earn the right to take a vacation because I was doing all this work but not achieving the goals that I had and she said that's exactly why you deserve a vacation.

1:00.0

You need this vacation so you can come back stronger you need to take a break from work

1:05.4

and you need to give your team an opportunity to do the work there was a lot of

1:10.6

stress just getting away from work going to a place where I didn't have a computer where my phone was not connected to any service.

1:18.0

I had no email for a week and that first day was a little bit tough for me.

1:23.0

But by the end of that first night,

1:25.0

the beginning of the second day, I felt so reinvigorated.

1:29.0

I started feeling more energized.

1:31.0

I started having more creative thoughts about work.

1:34.4

Even my body felt recovered from all the hard training that I did.

1:38.8

Whether you need a vacation from work and maybe you even need a mini vacation from working out from training.

1:45.9

Now what would that mean?

1:47.2

That means instead of training five, six, seven days in a row, maybe you train two days in

1:51.9

row, you take that third day off.

1:54.3

It gives you not just the physical break,

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