The No. 1 cause of burnout is doing the same thing over and over again and not seeing results. You need to do something different, whether it's increase your weights or do a different exercise.

To do that for a year and a half can be a lot. I'm concerned about the burnout factor.

Burnout is nature's way of telling you, you've been going through the motions your soul has departed; you're a zombie, a member of the walking dead, a sleepwalker. False optimism is like administrating stimulants to an exhausted nervous system.

I actually think burnout is the wrong description of it. I think it?s burn up. Physiologically, that is what you are doing because of the chronic stress being placed on your body.

We started the burnout this morning before the sun came up, and that made all the difference.

Everything seemed normal when I did my burnout, but when I hit the [line-lock] button after I pre-staged, the brake pressure kept fluctuating, first going up and then slamming back down, ... I must have hit it a dozen times trying to get it to engage, and by then, Kurt had already staged, so I kept pounding on it, trying different sequences.