Recovery Math: Why Rest Days Belong in Performance Plans

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Athletes and knowledge workers share a blind spot: they budget effort and ignore recovery. Rest is not the absence of work — it is the interval where adaptation happens.

Track sleep, easy days, and deliberate downtime the same way you track output. When recovery is measured, overreach shows up before burnout does.

The equation is straightforward. Stress plus rest equals growth. Stress without rest equals plateaus, injuries, and quiet attrition.

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