Finding the right mix

Many who inquire about coaching with me are inquiring one of two reasons. Their training has become stale and boring, or they have been repeating the same thing over for months (sometimes years) with the same results. They have decided if they are going to put the time in, they want more out of it. But what is the right mix? That is where I get to have fun finding that for them to make things better.

Sometimes "more" isnt always better. Sometimes it is "different" that is better. The body is a very efficient machine. It adapts well, and it eventually becomes efficient at whatever you are doing to it workout wise or life wise (until you go into excess with anything of course, then it starts to break down). Its goal is to use as little energy as possible, and to survive. Have you ever been at the end of a really long run and thought "no way I can make it the last mile", but somehow you do, and once you stop, theres no way you can get started again? Thats your brain. You can override your bodies signals for you to stop, to survive, but once you tell it it can stop, it does.

In training, your brain and body are used to one type of movement, one "zone", and in order to snap yourself out of the training rut, you need to do something different to the body. You become comfortable at a certain pace, and your body likes that, and you like that and your brain is telling you it wants to stick there. But sticking there wont get you to the finish line any faster.

Most of us dont like to get uncomfortable. Being comfortable with getting uncomfortable is necessary in order to improve, and finding the right mix of workouts, intensity, distance, is where improvement will come.