When people think about student athletes balancing sports and school, they often picture a busy calendar. Practice after class, homework after practice, nothing that a little time management cannot handle.

Ask most athletes how they feel about a rest day, and you will hear some version of the same thing. Restless. Guilty. Behind. As if the body asking for recovery is somehow a problem to fix rather than a need to meet.

When people think about fear of failure in athletes, they often picture nerves before a big game. A little pressure, a little adrenaline, nothing that cannot be shaken off by kickoff.