Why Are You Training?

Why are you training?

It's a question that gets asked a lot.

Why do we do these things?

For most of the people I work with, training serves a purpose.

It is to provide them with the strength,  mobility and endurance to go out and take on various challenges. 

Be that sports, be it traversing the mountains, security work, or simply doing everyday stuff without pain and discomfort 

So to this end I view creating training plans as a process of reverse engineering.

Every client that comes to me tells me their blue sky version of an end goal.

Becoming world champion 

Running their first marathon 

Playing with their as yet unborn grandchildren 

Then we assess their current state.

That gives us a Destination and a Current Location, just like Google Maps. 

And with those two points of reference we can plot the route from the current location to the destination,  with as many or as few detours as we like.

And just like any good road trip, we may actually change our destination from time to time and plan a new route.

But in order to plan a route, we must have a destination in mind.

That is what keeps us on track, it's what brings us back on track after a detour, it's how we get going again after a break.

Looking at training in this manner is what keeps our consistency and discipline. 

Without a destination in mind it's easy to fall victim to training “ADHD” and program hop.

And while I have no issues with variety and variation in training, random training will not necessarily get you where you want to go.

We can have variation without randomness,  just like if we go off track, Google Maps will plot a route back.

And that's my job,  my job is to be your Google maps app and help you get to that magical destination with as many adventures as possible along the way.

Regards 

Dave Hedges 

www.davehedges.net