When people catch a cold, they often blame their kids, someone at work.
When we sustain an injury from our training, or at work, we often over-emphasise the final incident when the injury “happened.”
The recency bias is when people more prominently emphasise recent events and observations than those in the more distant past.
We believe the sickness was due to the kid passing it along, rather than a chronically under-performing immune system. We believe the injury was due to a single “poor lift,” rather than a decade of training too hard, with little mobility work and little recovery.
Often when we feel stressed, overwhelmed, tired, burnt out, or injured, we need to look a few weeks, months and even years back. There is a Lag. Both in the physical domain and the mental/emotional.
How you eat, move and breathe today won’t just impact you today, it determines how you feel and perform next month, next year and in the next decade.
