09/02/2026
Thursday’s bad workout might have started Tuesday.
You felt good on Tuesday, so the easy run got a little faster.
Wednesday’s workout went fine.
Then Thursday arrives and your legs are garbage.
Naturally, you blame Thursday.
But training doesn’t work one workout at a time.
Easy enough to complete isn’t always easy enough to recover from.
That doesn’t mean you should always start every workout fresh. Sometimes carrying fatigue is exactly the point.
The better question is:
Was that fatigue part of the plan?
These are the patterns I look at with my athletes—not just whether Tuesday’s workout looked good, but what it allowed them to do Thursday.
Bad workout?
Look back 48 hours.
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