I think of conditioning as a long-term conversation between decentralized components. After breaking my foot, I’ve been working on conditioning all of the tiny ligaments to properly support movements and impacts I haven’t practiced in months. I can’t just say “hey foot, you’re not broken anymore, go back to normal.” I have to slowly and incrementally reinforce each change. Similar to learning a musical instrument by training our fingers to move a specific way, over and over – we...
