Specifics

Play is the purpose of the recreational athlete. Getting out and enjoying the sport or activities you love. When you participate in the chosen activity a lot, you become proficient, good and efficient at the task. Training takes a specific part of this task, say leg strength and power generation for cycling, and trains specifically that part of the whole. Rehabilitation in many regards is the same process to a much less intensity, the task is broken down into parts with the desire of improving the whole. In the end it is in the specifics in order to get to the whole.