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Many of the busiest people I coach are also the best at getting their training in. I don't know why, but there seems to be a mindset of just getting something done in some sort of compartmentalised way. It may be that making up front decisions and sticking with the process is what makes some people manage life effectively.
For most of us, and probably also those mentioned in the first paragraph, the world is shouting at us with multiple important things to do and at times our training seems of limited importance. However, if you stop training, you lose the compounding effect of fitness, and it doesn't actually take much time to do a training session in the grand scheme of things.
When you look back over months and years, it's rarely the suddenly urgent things that made the difference. It's the quiet stuff you either kept doing or let slide.
3 Insights About Systematic Training
I.
Most urgent things resolve themselves with thoughtful effort, or turn out to be less important than they seemed. Work crises, family dramas and financial decisions can often be left a day or two, or even just an hour or two, allowing you to get at least some of the thing you love in before returning to the problem more fresh and less conflicted. The training you skip today doesn't get made up because you can't build on it tomorrow.
II.
You already know this pattern if you think about it. You can probably remember dozens of 'critical' situations from last year that felt imperative at the time but are barely memories now. Meanwhile, the periods when you kept training consistently stand out clearly - not because they were dramatic, but because they gave you something solid to build on.
III.
The training that feels selfish or unimportant compared to everything else demanding attention often turns out to be what helps you handle those other demands better. The clarity from regular sessions, and stress management from consistent activity build confidence and compound. But you may only see this looking backwards.
