the interval stretching thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down
the interval stretching thing finally clicked for me and I want to write it down — a position I have arrived at slowly and would like tested. Regained most of it over a year and spent that year assuming it was my fault. It was not; it is what the literature describes. Stopped abruptly once and gradually once. The…
There is very little published guidance on stopping specifically, which is exactly why board consensus here should carry less weight than usual and a clinician conversation should carry more.
The habits are what carried it for a while. When they slipped, everything else followed, in that order.
Careful — interval stretching and dose reduction are different interventions and your post uses them interchangeably.
stopping is a plan, not an event
stopping is a plan, not an event
This is the sentence that reframes the whole board. Appetite first, scale later.
Small fix — you have described interval stretching and called it a taper. The exposure profiles differ.