Life Happens
How many times have you heard someone say they were going to do this but such as such happened or they used to train hard but then they got injured or they couldn’t get to the gym easily or came up with some other obstacle to progress?
Quite a bit hey!
I want you to imagine that you are the general of an army responsible for an important battle. The best laid plans are going to make this fight very easy for you….. until the enemy shoots back, until you don’t advance as quickly as anticipated and the fight starts to get hard. At this point you have some choices to make.
a) capitulate completely leaving your army to die
b) get them to run away as fast as possible and pretend nothing ever happened
c) adapt with what you have. Improvise if necessary. regroup and go back on the offensive from a different angle.
Doesn’t take much thought about which way to go does it? If you want to achieve you own objectives then you need to take on this mentality in your own life.
So you slept in and forgot your lunch. Doesn’t mean you need to go to a takeaway and order the greasiest nastiest meal there. What is stopping you from going to the salad bar instead?
So you ran out of protein? a ready to drink might have more sugars in it then wpi and water but at least it is protein. adapt and overcome.
So your training partner wimps out on leg day. The squat rack should have safety rails right. No excuses.
So you have an injury. Rest up and let it heal, regroup for another assault. But don’t let your diet suffer as a result and if you have hurt your wrist for example why would that stop you running?
Last excuse is finding the time. One thing I learnt on my promotional courses in the army, when they first give you sleep deprivation then completly overload you with tasks to achieve not because they need to be achieved but because they want to see you under pressure, was to prioritise. What absolutely needs to be done right now and what can wait untill tomorrow. My training absolutely has to be done. I plan my days and my weeks around it. If I know that i have to miss a day then that will be my scheduled rest day. Sure it might not be ideal to train legs then back the next day. But if that is what is needed then that is done.
Life happens and life will always try and get in the way of your objectives. Deal with it. Improvise, regroup for an another offensive until the battle is won.
February 1, 2009 at 1:50 am
haha well said! excuses must be thrown out of the window for anyone who wants to succeed. that’s one of my goals for this year - to quit making excuses and just get on with gym/diet.
March 15, 2009 at 2:32 am
Excellent post your exactly right. just get on with it. make it happen.