It’s difficult trusting the process and accepting that success is earned over prolonged periods of consistency.
When we have bad sessions or bad weeks, we can often let it affect us.
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We double down on training, play catch up with missed sessions, add extra onto sessions which weren’t planned for, and this can lead to performance being affected even more or worst case, injury.
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When injured, a bad day or weeks rehab can make the wheels fall off and we sabotage ourselves even more.
If you’ve had a bad week or a bad day, or progress simply hasnt been as fast as you wished it was, reflect on the last month, last 6 weeks and look for the
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good themes and patterns that have emerged, consistency really is key.
One good or bad day or week doesn’t make or break you.
Something I discussed during a recent course which stirred a lot of debate was a theory I have relating to physiological vs psychological ability and endurance sports.
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I truly believe that only a limited percentage of the athletic population have the capacity to achieve the top couple of percent of performance.
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No matter how much time or training many of us could possibly commit, only the lucky few are blessed with the physiological capacity to achieve a certain level of elite performance.
It didn’t take me long to answer to be honest, I think it’s the same secret for all sports (and life in general!)
the key is simply to be consistent over a prolonged period - sustained / maintained consistency.
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The successful athletes, and by that I mean relative success to the individual, not necessarily podium finishes per se, is that they are world class at doing the basics, rather than being basic at the world class things.
We can’t remove forces and physics but we can be smart with them.
It’s a strategy I use myself.
Of course there are runners who use one pair and don’t get injured as well, there’s far more to this puzzle than simply changing shoes as I talk about often,
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but maybe, for some, it’s something to think about trying alongside appropriate training and recovery.
It’s a far from perfect paper, as many are, and other confounders may apply but it’s a tactic some may wish to apply.
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But please take a moment to just assess where you are as an athlete right now?
We’ve probably all grown tired of that phrase “the new normal”, but it’s actually appropriate here when we think about returning to group sessions.
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Have you done more, less, or stayed the same over the last 12 months?
Are you the same athlete as the one who attended the last sessions?
Are the people you plan to train with the same?
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I really wish therapists and coaches would stop fear mongering by telling healthy people their “glutes don’t work”.
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They may be weaker than optimally wanted in some cases, but, and it’s a big but, glutes don’t work ONLY in the case of spinal cord injury, neurological deficit and extreme invalidity occasionally.
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In short, if you can get up from a chair without help, then your glutes work, let alone run, swim or cycle!🤯
Some training may help optimise them of course, but please don’t think your glutes don’t work!🤦🏻♂️
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