Which Training Path Are You On?

You are likely on one of three paths right now:

1. You're exercising with a view to staying healthy, to elongate your health span to match as closely as possible your lifespan.

2. You're exercising to get back to health, be that returning from pain and injury or from negligence.

3. You're involved in sport or some physical endeavour and you train to support that.

Each of those paths is spot on.

They all demonstrate that you have decide to take control, to get in the driving seat and make yourself as good as you can.

Back when I started Wild Geese, it was purely about that third group, training to support an activity or sport.

And while I may operate under the banner of Injury Management these days, my mission hasn't really changed.

As far as I'm concerned, an athlete trains for a sporting performance, which can be detrimental to health.

Living on the extremes is never healthy.

And me coming from martial arts and extreme sports, and having trained many people in those fields to reach levels far beyond my meagre talents, I can tell you how detrimental to your health those events can be with the high potential for injury!

And then in the off season, be bring them back to health, hopefully to a greater level of health, which translates to better performance when the season rolls in again.

The only difference then between an athlete and someone on a health span journey are those periods of competition.

That's not to say the health span crew shouldn't compete, why not enter a half marathon, a Hyrox event, a kettlebell sport event.

Why not go with your hiking buddies up the mountains?

Using fitness training that takes in Strength, Mobility and Endurance is what keeps you healthy and able to do things.

Acute events are the challenge, the test of your abilities, they provide the evidence that the training is working.

If you are an athlete and you're doing better, then the training is working. If worse, it isn't.

If you're a healthspan person, can you do things that your peer group can't, are you on their speed dial for house moves?

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Regards

Dave Hedges

www.DaveHedges.net