Most plans treat recovery as your problem.
Training adaptations happen during recovery, not during the workout. When sleep, HRV, or resting heart rate say the body is still absorbing yesterday, running the scheduled session anyway does not make you tougher — it usually just deepens the hole.
- Hard days only work if you were recovered enough to hit them.
- One bad night is noise; a multi-day trend is a signal worth acting on.
- The cost of ignoring recovery compounds quietly for weeks before it surfaces.