At the risk of sounding too woo-woo (it happens to me; I lived in Berkeley for twenty years), let me suggest that sometimes we choose our workouts by listening to our bodies.
This is not as far-out as it sounds. A way to quantify it would be to consider heart rate variability (HRV). If we have a smart watch or other device, we can track HRV and work out harder on days it is above our average and less strenuously when it is below.
However, relying on a device to tell us how we are does not build our ability to figure out what we need ourselves. The listening I am thinking about does build that ability. We wake up in the morning, check in with the body, and decide what we need, whether that is cardio to boost our mood or stretching to recover from a previous workout or weight-lifting to improve our strength. One note: most of us, upon waking up, will have the first thought that what our bodies really want is to go back to sleep; we need to wait for the second thought before we decide.
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