Holiday Survival Plan: Train Less, Just Don’t Stop

Summer slump is over, and the holidays are coming fast. Between Halloween, Thanksgiving, Friendsgiving and Christmas, this is the stretch where most people drift away from the gym and wake up on January 2 wishing they hadn’t.

Rob, Larry, Pete and Wendy share the tactics and mindset that get you through the season without losing everything you built. You don’t have to be perfect. You just can’t fall off the rails.

In this episode:

• Why it takes roughly 10 to 14 days before your body starts to detrain, and why training less still beats stopping completely
• Research suggesting that people who trained every other week ended up in the same place as people who trained every week
• Wendy’s non-negotiables: lock two sessions a week into your calendar and protect your routines
• Pete’s three-stage plan: an entry plan, an in-season plan and an exit strategy
• Pick four of the five (diet, exercise, sleep, hydration, stress management) and hold them tight
• One bad day when you’ve had 30 good ones doesn’t matter, so eat the pumpkin pie
• Why restricting too hard backfires, and why coming back too fast in January gets people hurt
• The holidays are about the people, not the drinking and eating
• Please don’t play drunk flag football
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You have about two months left in the year. You can do a lot of good or a lot of damage. The choice is yours.