Have you set goals for the remainder of the year and into next season? If you have, what are you doing to achieve these goals? If you haven’t, why? I want to encourage you to make sure you’re setting concrete goals for yourself and a game plan to get yourself there. If you don’t set goals, your training could leave you floundering. You may not have any idea of what you really are trying to accomplish everyday in the gym. ย If you don’t set a game plan for those goals, the training may end up making you run circles but you never get anywhere. Once you’ve set a game plan, you have to trust it, and give it a chance before you make modifications. I’ve seen so many people give programming a few weeks, decide “it’s not for them” and hop to a new program. You do this two and three times and you’re going to end up never really getting better at anything because you never give your body an opportunity to build any progressions in a meaningful way. The same should be said about the weaknesses you choose to work on. You can’t pick 12 things and think you’re going to get exponentially better at all of them, and you definitely can’t pick a handful of things and then change your mind 3 weeks later because you haven’t seen enough progress in a short amount of time.
Remember, I advised everyone a few weeks ago to put in the time, the work and trust the process. Change doesn’t happen overnight. It also doesn’t happen without clear direction. Make goals, and give your training clear direction.
Instead of having a skill today, I want you to pick a weakness that needs to be fixed. Depending on what it is, I want it addressed every day you train. If its poor movement because of lack of mobility, then list 3 mobility wods that will help you improve it and drill them everyday. If its strength, make sure it is part of training weekly. If it is something more particular like a gymnastics based movement, first figure out what your main hang up is, decide what needs to be done to correct it and/or accomplish it.
Shoulders back, eyes forward,
Coach Poppa