Taking Training Too Seriously
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August 23, 2025
So not every aspect of your training has to be that serious. And what I mean by that is, when we train hard, when we put a lot of stimulus, a lot of stress into what it is that we do, it can get to a point where it's like everything that we're doing is trying to fight against this thing that we're trying to prepare ourselves for and it's hard and it's tough and da-da-da-da, right?'
What we want to be able to do is access all levels of, just like emotion and thoughts that we could have available to us, to where sometimes you could go into a training session. Do the training session but just be extremely goofy during that training session, right? Or, like, actually have fun during that training session.
Other times you might need to go in and be extremely serious during the training session. Other times you might need to be able to go in and be a little bit distracted because you have a bunch of stuff going on, but you still get the training session done. And that's the most important thing. Right?
So It's being able to stay loose, like do the actual physical actions of the training session, but not be so tight and locked up that you feel like it has to be done absolutely perfect. And if it's not, then everything's going to fall apart, right? Like, that's not the goal. The goal is to be able to move and flow with what it is that we're doing while still doing it.
I just think, like, with athletes or with people that take what they do extremely... extremely intensely or extremely seriously, we can get caught in that band of everything being locked down and trying to be super, super strict and perfect with everything that actually allows the performance on the other end to not be as good because you're so locked down and strict.
So I encourage you to figure out different ways that you can attack training sessions. Literally go into training sessions and be goofy. Or go into training sessions and be serious. Or go into training sessions and be angry. Or go into training sessions and be happy.
Like, on purpose. Allow yourself to flow through those different states and then the effect on the other end is— you're going to be able to be that way in your performance or in your training or whatever. That's going to give you more tools that you can pull from. Different ways to be, so you can pull from so you can be more optimal in more scenarios.