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dot com and check out our offerings all right kirk I am on week four of training training

like training like you would need to train to be good at a sport

rather than just dad bod training. And last week was the turning point where I've talked about this on

here before. Since COVID, and I'm not a conspiracy theorist or anything like that, which is what everyone would say.

But since COVID, I have an insane immune system response in terms of, or at least a nervous system response to stimulus.

If I give my body a new stimulus that it's not used to, my body receives

all like input stimulus from workouts right now as if they're enormous workouts. So I get this

huge inflammation response to uping my training. And I've talked about this every time since COVID that I've restarted a training block.

I'm just refreshing for any new listeners.

But it'll feel like I ran a Mountain Ultra every day for my first week of starting

backup training.

Like 40 minute trail run.

The next day I think I have arthritis in my knees and ankles, that kind of thing.

It's bizarre.

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