We love “Optimal” these days. Optimal training. Optimal nutrition. Optimal recovery. Optimal sleep. All plans to try and squeeze that 1% edge out over what everyone else is doing. And on the surface, I get it. If you’re going to do something, go all out, right? As the immortal Lee Corso once said (about twenty thousand times), “Not so fast, my friend.” The problem with optimal is that it requires perfect conditions to work. All the right equipment, time, space, gadgets, and climate are needed to

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