025 The Importance of Training Priorities

Send us Fan MailI used to have no priorities. It was like trying to sprint a marathon. It’s like saying, look at Kipchoge, he runs 4:30 miles for a marathon. I can’t run a 4:30 mile, so I should just run as fast as I can for as long as I can.  This only leads to frustration, confusion and exhaustion. That’s not how YOU run YOUR fastest marathon. Yet this is what we’re doing with multidisciplinary athletes. We’re saying, Rich does thrusters and chest to bar at 30 reps a minute for 10 minutes. I can’t do 30 reps a minute for one minute. I should just go as fast as I can for as long as I can. Every day. That’s not how YOU get to YOUR best 10 minutes. Again, frustration, confusion and exhaustion – for those who really want to get better. Here’s what to do instead. Look at all the variables. Are you strong enough to make the thrusters easy? Are you strong enough to make chest to bar easy? Is your aerobic base big enough to recover during your transitions? Do you just need to practice your technique? Do you need to practice the sport more? This is one example of finding out your training priorities. Imagine a bar graph. The more bars you add to the graph, the shorter each bar gets. That’s what you’re doing when you go after all the priorities at once. Instead, pick one or two top priorities. Let any other stuff you do stay secondary. And watch those one or two bars really pick up, get them to the next level, that's how you get from A to B.