The subject of missed workouts is very important to me.
First of all, if you are ill you should NEVER ever train full stop. You need to rest and recover and not do anything until you’re better.
The rest of the time, missed workouts really concern me because it sets off a chain of events that lead to individuals losing progress quickly, both physically and mentally.
You have probably heard me mention that even a pro athlete who has a week off from training, can take 1-2 weeks to get where they were. So 4 weeks off, can take up to 8 weeks to get back to normal and back to the previous standard.
So if you miss the odd workout, then that’s no problem, if you miss a week, then that becomes more of a problem, miss 4 weeks and you slip back by up to a couple of months.
Missing 4 weeks also sends you backtracking mentally. When you have 4 weeks off, you are not really motivated to get back into your training, and are likely to have an even longer lay off!
Through experience, I have learned to watch people closely, and arrest the slide to mediocrity.
Let me say this, I have many people who work 10-12 hours a day, I have a lot of women who have 2-3 kids, some 4, one even 5, and not one of them has said “I have tons and tons of time to train all day, let’s do it”!!!
What they do say is that they have very limited time to train, and can I solve their time management/workout problems!!
Suggestions on how to do this tomorrow.
