A great secondary benefit of this advice is that you're more forgiving to your body. Push yourself to hard too fast and you'll be ignoring the track and back in

A great secondary benefit of this advice is that you're more forgiving to your body. Push yourself to hard too fast and you'll be ignoring the track and back in the weight room recovering from something like patellar tendinitis. (In which case you'll be glad if you have a fallback outlet like swimming.) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patellar_tendinitis http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patellar_tendinitis