Coming to terms with the limits of the human body.

Not everyday can be filled with grueling training sessions. Proper rest and recovery is the only way for an athlete to improve at their sport. Leighton spends more than half of his time training doing rehab, keeping his flexibility and mobility in check, and other active recovery exercises.

The life of a true athlete is not as pretty as it appears from the outside. The naive outsider gets carried away by the theatrics of the sweaty and painful workouts only to sneer at the slow recovery days. Recovery days are as important if not more important than the actual training. There is a real limit to the body that must be respected but curiously challenged every now and then…