Outstanding training drill

Many people consider talent as the main factor for success in sports.

While professional athletes keep saying that hard work contributes 95% of talent.

In this article we describe how to keep training efficiently.

The harder we try, the deeper we burn.

After 10 years of pursuing the best training drills and trying as hard as possible to improve my performance, I suddenly realized that I did everything wrong.

Pushing, pushing, pushing just doesn’t work.

Overloading ourselves with trainings and overcharging trainings with extreme exercises eventually leads to mental fatigue, and then we just abandon the whole thing.

I saw it happening with amateurs and with professional players.

Exhausting trainings only lead to injuries, frustration and disappointment. People just stop training at some point and forget their road to the venue.

Mental burnout is the common reason to stop trainings

The hardiest part of trainings.

In any sport of any level there is always one specific thing which is particularly difficult to deal with.

It is not high pulse exercises, overwhelming intensity or mental abuse of any kind.

It is participating in a training.

Coming to a training is the hardest thing to do.

It doesn’t matter how much effort we put into one separate training session – it is persistence that counts.

Successful athletes do not train much harder than others.

They do better since they are able to make their trainings more regularly and consistently.

Overloaded and overworked trainings.

Still, a common concept is to push as hard as we can. And the next training push even harder. And even harder after that.

It can work for a week or two, but it never works for any considerable period.

Overloading ourselves with trainings and overstressing our trainings with intense exercises inevitably leads to mental burnout.

Training should never be a burden

After a week of pushing over the limits, we normally end up ignoring trainings entirely.

At some point, it becomes too hard to answer the main question of any training routine: “Why?”

Each training is a test.

There is a smart way to approach trainings.

First, we want to figure out our natural tempo of trainings. We want to understand how many trainings per week we could integrate into the normal flow of our lives and how intense those trainings should be.

Second, and this is the most complicated part, we want to change our general attitude to trainings.

We want to move from push-push-push to test-test-test.

The point is that we can exert ourselves only if we have energy for that and an understanding of the purpose of our efforts.

We cannot push just to push alone.

As only we allow any “I have to” kind of vibe, we put ourselves in a position of ignoring the current state of our life and our body.

We can be overstressed already, without realising that, and pushing harder will only worsen the situation.

The more we push the harder it gets

Instead of going to a training session with the idea “I have to train as hard as I can“, we should utilise the idea “I want to test myself and see my current abilities“.

In this scenario, we do not come to trainings burdened with ambitions of our ego.

We come as free people to enjoy the process and get charged for further accomplishments.

We do not do trainings to prove to everybody that we are the best, the youngest, the coolest.

We do trainings to improve our performance to some reasonable extent.

We test ourselves to see how far we can reach.

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