Training Hygiene Wins races

People who don’t complete can’t compete. 

There’s a direct correlation between clean training execution and racing well.

I see a freaky correlation between those who are a sea of green on training peaks and those who are red and orange.

That’s not rocket science right? 

Here’s the thing; it’s not about the sea of green, it’s about the placement of key sessions. 

I can tell you straight it’s a frustrating experience as a coach to have someone question you after a poor result when they’ve been all over changes like a cheap suit. 

Gonna give you the keys; 

Making sessions up; Stop! Just don’t do it period. If you miss a session it’s history. If you try to make it up, you turn history into a mystery that coaches can’t read.

Jamming key sessions together because it works better in ur week. It’s a recipe for a lack of presence, a lack of intention, patchy attention and makes a mess of recovery. 

Don’t do it for the sake of it; Be fully in it or don’t do it. If you do it half arsed you’ll race half arsed. 

Now if you’re jamming every second session in with your mates and they aren’t on board with what you’re doing, you’re going to be following their messy habits not yours….

Don’t let someone else walk through your training structure with their dirty shoes on. 

Lovingly; if your all over the shop never completing or constantly changing shit to meet other people’s needs, asking your coach for a race plan is a waste of time….

How the fuck would they know if you didn’t follow what their experience pointed you to? 

Training hygiene is critical if you are serious. Mentally, physically, emotionally. Every single thing you do in training is creating your race day reality. It’s all following you in there. 

Set your intention, then set your attention. On race day you’ll do it alone, no one’s coming to save you from the bad habits you trained into yourself. 

Now what you’ve got to realise is this- a coach can point, but you have to make the direction yours. Take the responsibility, don’t farm out it. Be present and really see that a race is the mirror or everything you did and didn’t do in training. 

To be psychologically safe on race day, you have to be hygienic in the approach to your training. 

Don’t complain about a result you didn’t get with the work you didn’t do and the structure you didn’t follow.

I’ll bet any coach out there worth his or her salt is nodding their head right now.