Moving forward every day is tough, but is the overall key to us being successful or not.
Having a day off training is fine, chances are you will come back stronger the next day. Having a week off now and then can work such as holidays etc and you can come back refreshed.
Taking time off from training in general though hurts your progress big time. Studies show that for every week you have off, it can take you up to two weeks to get back to where you were. This is tough when you work hard only to see you go back at a rate of knots, especially when you have put so much work in.
Everyone i have trained over the years has gone through fazes of “not feeling it” and often wanting to miss a week of training when they do. This is perfectly natural and as humans, we are not robots and our emotions control how we feel on particular days. Some days we feel low on energy and emotions, some days we feel on top from and it’s as if we can take on the world.
This is why having a structure and a programme works so well. We “get through” the bad days through our workouts, instantly helping with the stress and emotional lows. If we keep on working through it, we are likely to come out through the other side in much better shape (mentally and physically), then if we gave in and accepted the emotional lows we were going through would become permanent.
Critical decisions like this make the difference on whether we get back up, even when we have been knocked down pretty hard in the first place. Every 3 week programme we have is a big challenge to get through. Then it gets binned, and a new one starts. This keeps jolting your body often. When you shake things up so much so often, this constantly keep you on the edge physically and mentally, wondering what’s coming next.
All of this keeps you moving forward, feeling better and not accepting sliding back for a moment. Exercise and eating right is of paramount importance for the good AND bad times, it keeps you positive, keeps you upright and still fighting whatever comes your way and that’s not emphasised enough!!
