How to Be Consistent With Your Training

One of the key elements in running is to have long-term consistency with training. It's basic. It's fundamental. It's necessary. If you want to see the most gain or improvements in your training and racing, you've got to be consistent—and that's over the long haul. I tell everyone from my friends to my loved ones to strangers that if you want to see any gains in your physicality and in your running you need NEED to be consistent.

Acquiring fitness is not a short-term process. It can take at least a year and a half of consistent training to become race fit. Though I am not necessarily interested in racing, I do know that long term fitness will take me a long time to achieve. My potential is there. I simply have to reach it.

But how do you get consistent?

You need to make a 100 percent commitment to train and continue through with action. It isn't easy to be consistent and self-disciplined. You will find that there will be times when it will be hard. It would be easier to take a seat on the couch. But, if your goal is to reach the next level, you've got to decide that you really want it. You will find yourself fighting through the tough times.

Once you've decided to commit, you need to decide on a training plan that works with your life schedule and will be consistent for you over long term.

Now it's important to have a training plan that is realistic with your schedule. A schedule that will allow you to be successful includes time for recovery, training, and is in sic with family and work life.

Keep your training simple. You don't need a complicated training plan or complicated devices to improve your running. Most of us are busy and have lives outside of training, so keeping it simple allows for consistency.

Repetition of workouts provides a number of positives to your training. It helps a greater understanding of your training. You'll see improvements over the long term and the short term. You will notice over time that you feel better and recover faster.

By repeating workouts week after week month after month you will be able to see progress. You will work to get better with each training session. It also keeps training simple. For example, knowing that you will do a certain type of workout each Monday, you will get some better time management. This is another thing that will add to long-term consistency.

Fueling your body properly will also help you be consistent with your training. Aiming for a high-quality diet will keep you healthy and recovering faster. If you can stay healthy and injury free you will be more consistent over the long term.

Sleep and recovery are also vitally important to success of consistency. You can't truly train hard if you are not recovered and haven't gotten proper sleep. Aim for getting quality sleep each night. Many reports say a minimum of seven hours.

When you run think about the power of consistency.

See you out on the roads.


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