These essays are reflections drawn from applied work across clinical practice and high performance environments.

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While many of the early observations emerged in elite sport, the questions they raise extend far beyond it: why performance and decision-making can remain unreliable even after apparent recovery, and why readiness often lags behind measurable capacity.

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The writing focuses on clarifying distinctions that practitioners already recognize between training and recovery, clearance and readiness, tolerance and adaptability, and on exploring how biological regulation governs the expression of performance under uncertainty.