Coaching practices for Calibration Training When Burned Out

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• My real decisions take months to resolve and matter too much for me to score them honestly, so I never get clean reps
• There’s one area I consider myself an expert in, and that’s exactly where I’m most stubbornly sure and most often wrong
• I’m sick of logging everything
• I make calls about how things will go all the time, but I never write them down or check them after
• The same weights I’ve always handled fine are suddenly feeling brutal week after week, and I keep telling myself it’s just a bad day

Practices that may help

1. Calibration Training
   Calibration training teaches you to match your stated confidence levels to your actual accuracy: if you say "70% confident," roughly 70% of those claims should turn out to be correct. Tetlock’s forecasting research and probability training studies show calibration is trainable with practice and feedback — the evidence here is specific and replicable.
2. Build calibration reps with low-stakes trivia and almanac questions
   Use factual trivia questions as a practice ground for calibration — outcomes resolve immediately and the stakes are zero.
   Calibration Training
3. Identify the specific domains where you are most overconfident
   Calibration is domain-specific — find where your confidence most exceeds your accuracy.
   Calibration Training
4. Take a planned monitoring break to prevent tracking fatigue
   Sustained self-monitoring burns out — a deliberate short break with clear resumption rules prevents abandonment.
   Self-Monitoring, Made Practical
5. Score your own past predictions to calibrate your outside-view use
   Keep a forecast log and score it — you cannot improve calibration without feedback on where you were over- or under-confident.
   The Outside View
6. Calibration practice
   Predict your performance before each retrieval test, then compare prediction to outcome.
   Self-Regulated Learning: Taking Control of How You Learn
7. Use post-session RPE review to detect overreaching early
   Track the RPE drift across a training block — rising RPE at the same load is the earliest signal of overreaching.
   The RPE Scale
8. Distinguish functional overreaching from non-functional overtraining
   Functional overreaching (planned short-term overload) leads to supercompensation; non-functional overtraining is a breakdown that can take months to reverse.
   Supercompensation
9. Run a volume-reduction deload: cut sets by 40–60%, keep intensity
   Reduce training sets by roughly half while maintaining the same load and rep ranges — this dissipates fatigue without losing neural drive.
   Deload Week
10. Time your next training session to hit the supercompensation window
    The highest adaptation occurs when the next stimulus lands during the supercompensation phase — above baseline recovery, before the adaptation fades.
    Supercompensation

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