Hi, my name is Lewis Howes and welcome to the Daily Motivation Show.

Why is sleep important for you?

I mean, sleep is when the body renews and regenerates, repairs itself.

It's when a lot of the neural networking happens to overlook sleep and to think, well, you know, I can sleep when I'm dead. Well,

you know, that just is such faulty logic. Yeah. It's so critical and so important. I try to get

eight hours a night myself. We talk about stress and rest balance. What does that mean?

There are certain stresses in your life that are unavoidable, work, stress, commuting stress.

And some of them are imagined even though your brain

thinks you're real they're they don't exist you know our stress mechanisms in the

body they evolved to handle true life or death situations you know a tiger

bearing down upon you an infection that's gonna kill you not am I gonna miss my

kids rehearsal or am I gonna be late for work or whatever? Those cause stress, but they're not life-threatening. And yet the brain sees him as life-threatening. So the message here is that you sort of have to identify stresses and then appropriately orchestrate certain rest and recovery. Meditation is a form of rest and recovery. But just taking, maybe if

you need a nap, you can do that. That goes back to the whole sleep thing being critical. But the other

part of rest is recognizing, if you're an athlete, recognizing when it's just inappropriate to go out

and train just because your schedule says, I have to go do six miles today. If you wake up that day

and you feel like crap, then you're better off taking that day off than plowing through it and being able to write in your logbook, yeah, I got through the workout. It felt like crap, but I got through the workout. I was just rested that. Just rested that. Yeah. In primal endurance, we go back to that philosophy that the body is in temperamental states back and forth. Sometimes you're in a state of energy and health and sometimes you're not. And you can't really plan on when those states are going to be. So you have to be willing to listen to the cues. For that reason, we say inconsistency is the key to consistent racing if you're an athlete. When you feel good, you can go hard. When you don't feel good, back off. Take time off. We use the term periodicity, so you can periodize your training so that there's

tranches of training days a week at a time where you're really going deep, deep, hard, hard,

and then you might take a week off or take it real easy and back off.

You can break those further up into quarterly annual segments,

always with the idea that some days are going to be good, some days you're going to be bad.

You're going to be bad.

You're going to trend toward wanting to build to ratchet up over time, but you're okay kind of not doing stuff as hard.

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