Going Stale

It's easy for a lot of us to go stale.

Sometimes it just feels like you could put off training, spend an

extra five minutes fiddling about at something and putting it off.

The burn and drive isn't there - you know how tough it's going to be

- and so on...

Everyone goes through that at some stage, at every level.

It doesn't mean it is the end of the road, it doesn't mean you have

lost your passion. The only thing it means is that you are tired and

need to have things shaken up a bit.

If you have been competing a long time you may have come across

visualisation techniques - running through your movement before going

out there and doing it.

Instead of doing it with regards to you "competing", do it with

regards to your picking up your kit and getting out the door.

Can you remember a time that you couldn't wait to get out there in your car to go training? When everything was going right and you

knew how good it was going to be? Even though it was tough training

there was a challenge and drive there that just tore you up??

Get that feeling, go back into the memory, keep running it in your

head continuously and get that feeling again.

Now, once you have it switch back to a scenario of going

training now. Keep running the scene over and over of you picking up

your kit and water and everything else but with that feeling from

the last scene still filling your body.

Now - open your eyes. Take a break - do something else, clean the

egg whites off the saucepan or something.

Go back and think about going training NOW and see what happens.