Not Everything is a Priority

I'm send you my "Monday Newsletter" at almost 10pm on a Thursday

That should tell you how the weeks been going!

Now, where's the lesson in this and how am I going to spin it into an

informational newsletter?

Well, simply put, life happens.

And I spend a lot of time explaining to clients that it's ok to miss a

workout, it's ok not to train on your holidays.

It's ok, to only do the bare minimum some days.

It's ok to prioritise other things when other things need prioritised.

I've said before how my clients tend to fall into one or more of 3

categories:

1) Injured and looking for a way to regain fitness

2) A keen amateur athlete with well defined goals

3) General Fitness people looking to keep fitness high enough to take on

any challenge that comes their way

Regardless of the category you fit into, you will be well advised to

take occasional breaks away from training.

Those in category 2 generally would have this planned, maybe after a big

event or at the end of the season, we call this by a fancy name, because

they're athletes, we say it's "periodisation"

The other two categories tend to have more freedom, they can take breaks

whenever they see fit.

And for everyone, there will be times where life simply tells you to

take a break.

So what we do is instead of focusing on individual workouts, we look at

the month.

If we had planned to train 3x/week this month, then that would have been

12 workouts.

If we get all 12, then that's great.

If we miss a couple, we still have 10 workouts in the bag.

Then we compare months against months, are we hitting a good average, or

are we consistently missing sessions.

Then we have information to work with.

Again, an athlete will be more focussed, but they also have a timeline

set for them.

Rehab clients tend to be very focussed until they stop hurting

It's the journeyman that can wander.

Just like I let this newsletter slack every now and again, because it's

not the main part of what I do, if fitness isn't the main thing you do,

then the odd miss isn't going to harm you.

Just so long as on average, you get more sessions in than you miss.

And even more important than that, so long as your key metrics that

you're training to improve are moving in the right direction.

Your Squat has gotten stronger, your 10K time has gotten quicker, your

toe touch is a little deeper, you're Tee Off has gotten a little further

That's the key, that's why we train.

It's about results

It's about having the strength, mobility and endurance to to the things

that make life worth living!

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Regards

Dave Hedges

www.DaveHedges.net