If you don't pick a day to rest, your body will pick it for you.

I feel like I've ignored my body for so long

that it has just completely picked all the days for me

of needing to rest because it just took so much out of me.

It's also, I think, very unnatural to have that much pressure on you.

And, you know, when you think about the Olympic Games,

it's a completely different environment.

If I could go back and I could change something,

I wish that I felt better during that process.

I wish that every day wasn't such a struggle of just feeling good.

And it's honestly something I still struggle with today.

I used to train every other day

for about seven hours. I still don't feel my body is fully recovered and most of the time

throughout my career was six days a week, but before the 2016 Olympics, sometimes was seven days.

So in my experience, there wasn't enough emphasis on recovery.

Allie, welcome to the Woof podcast.

Thank you.

So excited to be here.

I've wanted to do this for a long time.

I mean, I think you have an amazing story, an inspiring story.

You're from Nita, Massachusetts.

Yes.

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