I didn't give myself enough breaks during the training year to recover. I didn't understand the power of periodization.
I think my least healthy habit is running around too much. And I think I'm getting better about it as I'm getting older.
All haste implies weakness.
As soon as you hear a fighter say, "I'm working smarter, not harder," you always want to bet against that guy. That mentality does not work. You have to work hard. And sometimes that means you are going to work too hard. You are going to decline. You are going to tear down your body and your muscle fibers. You are going to get sick.
You can run out of energy if you take on a lot of stuff.
For a bit I was going mad trying to do martial arts twice a week and go to the gym and do weights, but that can make you ill if you balance it with flying around and living like I do, so I narrowed it down.
I have nothing left to prove. I've already done enough to my neck.
I think I train too hard.
That's the thing I'm worst at: resting. I have to be forced to do it. Sometimes I think of loopholes. 'Oh, I'm just going for a walk, up a dune that's 45 degrees, but I'm walking, so it's not a workout.'
Trying too hard to be too good, even when trying to be bad, is too good for the bad, too bad for the good.
First year, I was in a real high pace running around and I couldn't pace myself.
I have a saying 'train, don't strain.' The Americans have the saying 'no pain, no gain' and that's why they have no distance running champions. They get down to the track with a stopwatch and flog their guts out thinking that it'll make them a champion, but they'll never make a champion that way.
Basically, it's just fatigue, ... I've run out of gas a little bit. I've played a lot this summer, and the body's just telling me I'm fatigued.
After 120 kilometers my body said, ‘ooh, ooh Jens! What were you thinking?’
I had no idea there were so many ways you could burn yourself out.
I played almost four hours today, ... Im very, very tired.
The last thing you want to do is play a long gig on a hot night, pass out, and wind up in a hospital emergency room.
Nobody ever drowned in his own sweat.
I'm a workaholic, so I ignore the signs of fatigue and just keep going and going, and then conk out when I get home. It can be pretty stressful.
From time to time I might push a little bit too hard and I have got to be a bit more careful.
My legs tired, ain't your legs tired!? His legs ain't Tired! He Just... Tinktinktinktinktinktink, TinktinkTinktinkTinktink!! Just paperclips and Sparks everywhere!
I had been a premed student, and the way you got through premed was to work extremely hard and then harder.
It was the fact that they tried so hard that doomed them.
In my training in the summer, back in the day, I used just go, go, go! I wouldn't take any days off, I would do whatever I wanted, as much as I wanted of it.
If we carry on filling up the calendar, we keep on pushing the athlete, we shorten the athletes longevity. The risk is to shorten a career that could have lasted 10 years because the athlete is burnt out.
