More performance, better sleep, a defined body – with the right app, the right plan and enough discipline, self -optimization seems possible for everyone today. We experience a trend towards maximizing, especially in recreational sports: training data is tracked, goals quantified, successes are shared on social media. The body becomes a project.
But what happens if the pursuit of health and self -improvement tilts into the opposite? If training becomes a mandatory, your own progress is never enough and the exhaustion in the end is greater than the benefit?
We want to speak to people who have reached their limits through self -optimization in sports. Did you feel overwhelmed in sports at some point, physically, mentally or both? Did you train until nothing went? Or is the pressure to have to improve constantly, at some point?
Tell us your story-regardless of whether it is about ambitious running destinations, gym routines, counting calories or training plans. What did you drove – and what did you stop?
Write to us via the form or by email to community-redaction@zeit.de. We want to publish selected articles on time online, and also anonymized on request.
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