If you’re unfortunate enough to have found yourself trapped in a cycle of training hard and getting results, only to fall off the wagon and crash back to square one, here is why it’s happening and what to do about it:
We begin with the “why”:
When you are a serious person (i.e. someone whose life is more than training, eating plain chicken breasts, and talking about the same), you’ll inevitably encounter certain obstacles that interfere with your ability to stay on the straight and narrow.
Some of these are practical (work demands, stewarding your kids over the holidays, mild illness) and some are psychological (boredom, shiny-object syndrome, etc).
Whatever the case, at some point, one or more of them will secrete themselves like an acid into your hitherto well-oiled machine, melting the insides and forcing everything to grind to a halt.
It’s not always as sudden or dramatic as that, but the net result is always the same:
* The strength, leanness, and cardiorespiratory fitness you’ve probably sweated literal bullets to gain is lost in part or even in full,
* Aches, pains, and postural problems that have been kept under control through regular exercise return with vengeance,
* Your daily routine is thrown out of kilter, sleep suffers, and you find yourself frittering more and more of your life away staring at a screen of some description,
* And so on, and so on, and so on.
As for “what” you need to do about it if and when you find yourself in this unenviable position (or indeed if you are in it right now)?
There is only one thing that works reliably, in my experience.
And that is growing your “training toolbox”.
In practice, this means building a suite of strategies and tactics so you’ve always got something in your back pocket you can whip out to navigate through the problems everyone with a life faces from time to time.
Here is how you do it:
* Read books on training by reputable authors,
* Dig through long form written content hosted on independent websites (Facebook/Instagram/LinkedIn/Twitter posts don’t count),
* Join an old-school forum or two, even if only just to lurk,
* Find and pay someone to furnish you with this information.
There’s a lot of work involved whichever you choose.
Yes, even if you are paying someone to help you out (what you are – or at least should – be paying for is to save time and hassle, not a wetnurse; but that’s a topic for another time).
It’s doubly the case if you purchase my stuff, because fostering (some might say forcing) independence is central to my way of doing things.
Something to keep in mind if you can’t or don’t want to think for yourself.
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Thank you,
Phil Tyreman