Rest and Recovery

Plan your rest and recovery in first, then put the training in. Plan your days off (yes you can have a day off, even 2!!), your easy days and easy weeks. Don't wait until you're absolutely knackered before taking a rest, doing that could take you alot longer than a normal recovery period to recover from, but most people won't have the will power to take more than the normal rec period off and will resume training too soon, so starting the next training block tired, but the idea is you start each block of training at a higher level than you started the last block. Remember you don't get fitter by training harder but by RECOVERING harder, without REST and RECOVERY you won't ADAPT to your training.