Consistency
I was talking to my right hand man and Head of dept P.T Mr Adam Wright RM (rtd) yesterday. The conversation occurred during our pre planned daily training session which happens everyday from 15:00 to 16:00. We were not doing the same session but working on individual aspects of our personal requirements. My session was organised around my quest to regain strength I lost after my motorcycle accident nearly 4 years ago. Adams was a leg session designed to help him run faster.
I have been training and training with Adam for nearly 20 years now. I have been trained by others and training myself ALL my life.
Neither of us are, have been or are likely to be a world champion in any recognised sport.
I turned to Adam and said ‘you know it is sad that we are seen (by some) as impressive whilst being so mediocre, medieval man, for instance would ridicule our pathetic efforts in attaining physical superiority’. Adam nodded in understanding.
We all know of many young sporting world champions, that after their heady days ruling the world fall into the familiar spiral of personal neglect once the ‘goal’ has gone.
I do not know how many sporting world champions there are across ALL the sports. I do know that it is fractional compared to world population. Your ‘actual’ potential to be a world champion then is like mine. Very limited!
What is ‘the’ point then of physical activity if it is not to be a WORLD CHAMPION?
Being physically fit I suppose precedes being a world champion by millennium. Being fit is supposed to be part of the living experience, its uses so multiple it is unquantifiable.
To attain it and maintain it in any USEFUL form though requires ONE thing, in my ‘unwritten’ study of physical training at ‘world’ and ‘domestic’ level. One thing is either apparent or not apparent.
I know of and have trained hundreds of ‘bright’ stars.
Dieters. Fasters. Maniacal trainers.
Know all’s. Coveters. Wishers. Wanters.
Dreamers. liars. Blamers.
I then, like Adam and many others I train now are actually aspiring to our own made up world championship a world championship encompassing the ONE thing that is either IN or OUT.
This world championship comes in both sexes and in EVERY weight category that the human form can be made to attain. It also comes in ‘every’ category of exercise that has been invented.
What is this world championship you ask? Well since you ask. I call it ‘CCW’.
CONSISTENCY Championship of the World.
In fitness if you are not consistent. You will NOT reach your potential.
Is that clear?
Good.
M