Return
Finding the way back to movement after burnout.
After eighteen months of nothing, the first walk back was the hardest. The second was easier. The third was a beginning.
Sam Okafor
8 min read
For a long time I treated movement as something to perform. Numbers on a watch, splits to beat, plans to follow. When my body finally said no — and it said no for almost a year and a half — I assumed I had lost it forever.
The thing that brought me back wasn't a training plan. It was a Sunday morning recovery walk a friend dragged me on. No watch. No pace. Just a route along the canal and a coffee at the end.
I learned that movement doesn't have to be earned. It can just be the shape of an ordinary day.
"Movement doesn't have to be earned."
