Behold a strange metaphor I did not invent but cannot for the life of me remember where I first read it (please let me know if you know so I can give appropriate credit):
From the moment you set foot in the gym, a sand timer is flipped.
Grains trickle through the neck a handful at a time until the uppermost section lies empty.
Here, the contents bear no relationship to your energy levels or enthusiasm – only the time on the clock available to you for effective training.
Everybody’s timer is different. Some are very large, some miniscule, and yours will doubtless change in size in line with whatever else is going on in your life, not to mention your age, health, interest in training, and manifold other factors too numerous to list.
But everybody has one, and it is a cold, hard fact that nothing productive happens once it runs out. Which is why it concerns me greatly to see people diddling with their phones, chatting, and generally fart-arsing about when they ought to be training.
It’s no coincidence that these are the same people who look the same (and often worse) year in, year out and struggle to stick with training for more than a handful of months at a time (likely due to them not seeing any results as their workouts are thoroughly unproductive).
Anyway, I am sure that is not you because those sorts tend not to read my emails.
However…
This “sand timer” concept does raise an interesting question, and that is:
“How large is the average sand timer?”
Answer:
Experience tells me it’s roughly an hour, give or take ten minutes.
Meaning that the typical trainee who has a job, family, friends, and so on needs to arrive at the gym, potentially use the lavatory, maybe get changed, warm up, train, and cool down in circa sixty minutes.
They can (and many do) stay longer than that, but, as I said, any training done past that fifty minute to an hour and ten mark is vanishingly unlikely to contribute much.
I’m under no illusions that this is no easy thing to achieve.
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