When trying to improve in any aspect of your life, you need to solve the formula, or you get sub-optimal results.
Put pressure on one area and something else will burst.
I've seen this many times, in professionals I coach, as well as the professional athletes I have coached. A balanced approach to any improvement action drives success, especially when it comes to exercise and training.
CAPACITY is key to enabling the actions you take. Summer is coming. Exercise is coming.
What do I mean by capacity?
We know: “Fatigue makes cowards of us all”.
We know: Depleting energy sources through physical exercise puts us in a state of fatigue.
We know: Training to economise and increase thresholds prepares and enables us to tolerate and withstand physical and mental adversity.
So
Maintaining your physiological energy systems, when including activities that deplete and utilise them into your life is the secret to avoiding cravings, dips in mood, trenches in motivation, mental slumps, and physical exhaustion.
Duh
Well, this is not about having a consistently full fuel tank. It's about not having an empty fuel tank.
Makes sense.
But most of us don't do it. We skip meals, we overconsume just before bed, we miss lunch, so we don't miss deadlines, we snack on junk on the way home, and are often not fuelling, or are eating energy-sapping food choices which have the opposite effect.
Small changes. Think.
With small changes and small efforts, can make big gains to how you operate not only throughout the day but also to your exercise experience.
If you go on a long road trip, you pump the tyres, check the oil, and fill the tank. Go on a short trip, you just get in and drive to the destination.
My point is, to prepare yourself for what's coming. Long workdays, long workouts, high-intensity workouts, and you will feel the difference.
Consider
- How you snack, your meals, your supplementation, and the timing of these to fuel your day, both before and after effort.
- Sleep habits and routine, adjust them to support 7-8 hours of sleep a night.
- Stay accountable with trackers, scales, timers, or whatever works for you as a measurement of our activity.
Benefits?
PLENTY, but most importantly we reduce the physical and mental troughs which can catch us out daily. These impact mood, ability, competency, and emotion.
Taking actions to REDUCE the frequency and severity of these energy TROUGHS, and INCREASE the quality of what you do, daily.
Build your capacity as a result:
- You’ll make better choices
- You’ll give more of yourself
- You’ll be more present
- You’ll smash your exercise
- You will FEEL better
And of course,
You will be very very very hard to kill!
Written by Donny Singe, Performance Coach. You can find out more or get in touch with Donny on his website donsinge.com.
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