Listen To Your Body

Listen To Your Body On A Daily Basis.

Every day, when you wake up, get out of bed and start your day, you should assess how you are feeling, how your body is doing and how hard you should push your training that day.

You may jump out of bed feeling absolutely great. In that case, smash on with your training for that day and push as hard as you can.

But if you are anything like me, those days do not come along very often. More often than not, you’ll be feeling less than 100%. Whether that’s due to injury, every day aches and pains, illness or whatever. But this does not mean you shouldn’t train that day. You can still train, but maybe your workout should be less intense or for less time. Maybe you slightly adjust the session you were going to do. If you were planning on a lower body workout, but your dodgy knee is worse than normal, then possibly do upper body for example.

Obviously there will be times when you are feeling not up to training at all. Then don’t. It’s not a crime to miss a workout. If you are training regularly, missing the odd workout or 2 will not adversely affect you. In fact, it will probably help you.

You know your body better than anyone. You know what is normal for you. Don’t miss workouts every time you are a little under the weather, but sometimes it’s best to rest and wait until you’re ready.

Train as often as you can, and to as high an intensity as you are able that day. Rest when needed. You should have a plan for your training, but don’t be a slave to that plan. Sometimes, to make it work for you, you need to change that plan.