Ground floor: fitness is solid — the concrete foundation is there. Her body can build a skyscraper, but right now the lobby is empty: legs moving, mind wandering, windows closed.

Middle floors: mental blocks. She starts walking mid-race. Numbers obfuscate— pace dropping, splits slipping — the elevator stalls. Her mind hasn’t moved in tandem with the body.

Upper floors: coaching tools are like scaffolding. Visualization, pre-race rituals, micro-goals for each lap — each one a steel beam connecting intention to action like Supercompensation because proper recovery and dissipation psychophysiological fatigue. Encourage her to embrace your limitations and her own recent performances as structural stress tests, not an existential crisis: skyscrapers need tension to stay upright.

Rooftop: race day. The mental Manhattan skyline aligns with physical and mental freshness and readiness. Pain becomes proof of work, each step a brick laid toward recovered, positive and fresh mental states like the visualization meditation. Breathing more? Suddenly the skyline gleams — her performance is like a tower built from body, mind, and courage.

Strong foundations alone don’t build skyscrapers; you need the mind’s scaffolding to enhance each layer, individually, like the principle of individualization | variety toward a renewed skyline!