What It Takes To Train Hard

August 20, 2025

The reason that you have behind why you're training will dictate to what level or to what degree you're able to tap into the effort or the willingness to put yourself fully into a training session. So what I mean by this is, let's say, that your one purpose is to get as good as you can at your sport, and then let's say we also give you an arbitrary number of One Hundred units of what you can use of yourself that you can invest into what it is that you're doing. 

If you have one purpose, maybe that allows you to access 30% of yourself. Literally like 30%, you have one purpose. That purpose is important enough for you to access 30% of that. Let's say we add another purpose. So your first purpose is to get really good at your sport, as good as you can at your sport. The second purpose that you add is to be able to support your family. At some point, right? That is your second purpose. That now adds in another aspect: okay, well now you can tap into 50% of what you have available.

Let's say we add a third purpose: I want to be able to buy my mom and dad a house because they did this, this, this, and that for me, right? That now adds on, let's say another 25%. So now you can access 75% of what you have the capacity to do.

So the point here is: the more purposes that you can create that are real for you and that you actually care about and that actually matter, the more purposes you can create for yourself or you have for yourself, the more you're actually going to be able to tap into what it is that you have available to you in your training to literally put more of yourself in the training. 

So look at what is the reason that you're doing what you're doing. What is it that you actually care about? What is it that is driving this thing? Figure out what those are for yourself.