I'm going to get yin of physical training. A training plan without a plan for Recovery is a Plan to Fail.

On the UTT!

Hey folks, this is Mark Devine and welcome back.

This is the Unbeatable Mind

podcast thanks so much for joining me again this week this

podcast is going to be a solo cast so I will be interviewing myself and we're going to finish up our discussion of the three

pillars of longevity with the second and third pillar of Rest and Recovery and

Integrated Training. So you may recall that I mentioned earlier that a lifelong practice of three pillars of excellence can be both extremely rewarding and alter the quality of your life significantly.

The first pillar was proper fueling.

We dove into that a few weeks ago.

Proper fueling revolves around effective breathing, hydration, macro and micronutients.

Now the second pillar, which I'm going to cover here, is on recovery, which also includes sleep,

and the final third pillar is on integrated training.

Recover, the words recover were music to the ears of my fellow seal trainees and I.

After being dropped for endless rounds of push-ups or the infamous

45-minute leaning rest, which looks surprising like a push-up without any rest, the words

were in order to stop what we were doing and just to stand up.

Now just changing from the leaning push-up position to standing or whatever came next was a huge

relief and gave us critical time to restore our bodies and minds to prepare for the next fight.

Now ever since SEAL training I've gained more and more appreciation for the importance of that

word recover as a pillar of longevity. Now recovery is the yin to the

yang of physical training. A training plan without a plan for recovery is a plan to

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