Recovery is what allows intensity to remain a tool instead of becoming a lifestyle.

Intensity is genuinely useful when it can be turned on for a defined period and then released. Without recovery, it stops being something you deploy and becomes the only setting you have, which means it is no longer available when it matters because you are already at maximum. What was a tool becomes a permanent condition and loses its usefulness in the process.

Decide when your current hard push ends and what happens afterwards. Give the intensity a boundary. It works far better as an occasional gear than as an identity.