Talking about elite athletes yesterday, its important to take some vital lessons from how they train.
Perhaps most people wont be able to show the extreme dedication they show to training, diet and basically living like a monk, but reaching our own personal best can be just as important for our own needs.
This is why we talk about constant improvement on here, and how to achieve exactly that and the processes involved.
It all starts with the monthly measuring and it follows from there. Its all about accountability and this is what you will have in common with these elite athletes, they are constantly being measured and constantly analysing their performances.
Nothing can make up for results and you need to make yourself accountable as much as possible.
If an elite athlete loses a race, or performs really badly in the race, there will be a lot of reprecussions, usually resulting in losing money or sponsorship or both.
There won’t be any such penalties if you don’t lose two inches off your waist in a month for example, but you can usually tell if you have had a good month of training and eating-or not!
There aren’t many good reasons to just go through the motions in your training, if you do then you need to find some motivation from somewhere and re-assess what you are doing.
If its lack of intensity, then change it and get much more fired up about your training.
If you have been in the same exact routine for 6 weeks or more, then change it now and you will see an immediate result for the better!!!
If you wonder why you still train, then remember why you first started, why you are doing it now and what you really want to achieve, deep down, from your training and eating efforts!
This is what we can learn from the star athletes, and the accountability they constantly have to go through, use it in a positive way and you will automatically get better results!
