“My predicament was the just punishment of that most fatal of human follies, our not having known when to stop.” – Henry James, The Aspern Papers. About 7 or 8 years, before I began studying exercise prescription and physiology, I was a very naïve (read: stupid) individual when it came to training. After months of hard work, I ended up with medial-tibial stress syndrome and a couple of hairline fractures just one month before I was due to complete a multi-day team event. Ever