Are You Standing Still?

Don't worry; you're not. Allow me to explain.

Your next workout will train your mind, and your technique.

I want you to reread that last sentence. Note I didn’t say, “…can train your mind, can train your technique.”

When you train without commitment to improving your mindfulness and technique, you don't simply waste an opportunity to strengthen them. You actively weaken them.

That's how the nervous system works. Experience imprints itself, always.

So does negligence.

From warmup to cooldown, every moment you don't pay attention to your whole being—inducing subtle gradations of effort and minor shifts in technique, then assessing the results of these experiments—reinforces inattention and poor technique.

ACTCATBIT* #1: You're never standing still. If you're not advancing, you're retreating.

Which will you choose?

In my next entry in this series, I’ll begin to teach you precisely how to pay attention.

It's not always easy, but it can be joyous. And habit-forming (forgive the pun). And it's the fastest way to get fast.

Which is what you're after, isn't it?

* Annoying Coaching Truism—Called A Truism Because It’s True!