Why your approach might not be working 🤔
One of the things I’ve observed during my 19 years as a coach
^^ (blimey, that went fast!)
is that 90% of the people I’ve coached & trained already know exactly what the problem is with their nutrition & training
For example, they already know that eating plenty of protein, veggies, & healthy fats is important to make them a fat burner
Just like they know that Smoking, drugs and drinking is bad for their health
Take obstacle racing for example
If I could identify one of the biggest issues with most athletes approach to diet & training
It would be this:
The person who coaches themselves has an idiot for a client
Hell, even a good surgeon doesn’t pull out his own spleen right?
I tried it for years (coaching myself that is!)
and here’s the thing:
You don’t have enough brain power to do it all yourself
You genuinely can’t coach yourself,
Not properly anyway
Here’s why:
1 – firstly, designing a program takes a level of honesty that people genuinely don’t have.
We tend to miss out & gloss over the things that we really DO need to address, cuz we’re afraid to confront them,
2 – Secondly, do you follow your plan all the way through to the end?
Will you give it time to work? Or will you, like me start tweaking it and changing it
Can you follow your own plan?
Some people can coach themselves but most can’t
3 – Finally, do you have the drive & the will power to actually push through with your own programme, even when you don’t want to
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and not find the easy way out?
I don’t know about you but I can sometimes be a master at talking myself out of a tough session and going back to the workouts I’m most comfortable with
I have another idea to help you with this
See, if you asked me why I’m doing hill work twice a week? I’d reply with “coach said so”
If you asked me why I’m taking turmeric?” I’d reply with “coach said so”
If you asked me why I’m doing more tempo runs I’d reply with “coach said so”
If you asked me why I’m training my forearm extensors more I’d reply with “coach said so”
If you asked me why I’m running every day now, (I’m personally not) but I’d reply with “coach said so”
See “Said so” is awesome
“Said so” completely divorces you from any responsibility from your training & nutrition
You don’t have to worry about what you should be working on
You can hand over all that responsibility on to someone else
To free up more brain power so that you can take care of what’s important
Whilst we’re on that subject,
My new OCR training programme OCR VIRGIN will 100% help you with this
Not only will it leave-no stone-unturned when it comes to getting you fitter & faster for your obstacle racing
But you’ll also have the support & guidance from me when you’re doing it aswell
Head on over to the link below:
https://lg.clickfunnels.com/sales-page19694846
Sam “said so” Winkworth
PS – nothing here today but thanks for looking :-)
Oh go on then,
Here’s that link again to start to stepping your obstacle racing up
Sam Winkworth is the race director of the popular Dirty Rotten Scramble race series. He is also the head coach at the Unbreakable Project designed to develop obstacle racers who want to podium on a world stage. He is also the creator of OCR VIRGIN designed to help athletes of all abilities train & prepare for their next OCR.
