[soared]

Hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you are likely over training. Check out heart rate zones, optimal workouts for weight loss/muscle gain. IE for endurance sports most of your training time should be zone 2, which if casually “a level of breathing where you could have a conversation”. So not breathing hard. It’s counterintuitive, but you should do workouts pretty close to easy.

[RealityVoid]

I am... not sold on this? The adaptations happen quite fast and you should get quite fast to have the basiline ability for training quite high, so I would say push through the first months. Personally, I feel no adverse cognitive effects form training. On the contrary. So I'm a bit confused a bit about this whole conversation.

Training light is a great way of winding up doing a whole lot of nothing.

[mamcx]

Yeah, in special if you "stop-start-stop" constantly.

Give time to ramp-up. I like to start 2-3 days with things like the "7 minute workout" before dive in into anything more complicated.

Is better quantity than "quality" until you actually can put the discipline and consistency. If not, just walk is good enough