This week has been the most volatile in the stock market for quite some time. In listening to people on the radio and on TV panicking how they are losing huge chunks of money, I came to realize that too many people are not diversified. That is, they "put all their eggs in one basket." This is analogous in the fitness community to someone who solely performs one specific activity.
A good portion of my work revolves around consulting with individuals in an effort to critique/optimize their training regimen. I often see too much of the same activity throughout their training cycles. For example, the "cardio" portion of a recent individual I worked with consisted of 6 days/week of jogging. This was all he did for the last 8 months! Even if he was training for the Boston Marathon, I would not have him ONLY running. To truly meet your respective training goals, you must create variety in your program. Instead of running every day, this guy could be swimming and cycling 2 days, while jogging and running the other days. It'd help recruit a variety of muscle groups and minimize his risk of injury.
In finance they call it diversification. In fitness we call it periodization. At the end of the day, the same message applies: don't put all your eggs in one basket.
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