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Goals, Progress, PRs, advancement. We all want them and strive for them in some form. The largest road block is surprisingly not a lack of focus on our goal, on the end but a lack of focus on today, the starting point. We spend the majority of our time milling and pondering over the ending, Point B. Never occurring to us that most plans fail not for a lack of identifying the ending point, but from not accurately identifying the starting point. Point A. It would much like if you were to get blindly dropped in an unknown location with an Atlas and your instructed to make your way to New York City. Well what the??? It aint going to do a damn bit of good to map backward from New York City to your current location when you dont know where the heck that current location is. Mapping, and any planning you is all for not, just wasted time. The number one priority after picking your general goals is to identify where are you now? In training and nutrition this is what I describe as finding your margins. What are margins. Much like a piece of paper its our limits, boundaries, a clear definition of our abilities. Its your zone of comfort, your current ability in varied attributes that play a role in your goals. For instants an athletic goal will have multiple margins. Of course one for training, you may even break that down further into varied strength attributes that lend to your goal, cardiovascular ability, limit strength, endurance strength etc.. Nutrition and supplementations. Rest and recovery, among others that you need to honestly address and identify your current state. In order to then make a plan of attack.
For simplicity were going to narrow it down to three simple attributes that each will need, Training, Nutrition, and Rest and Recovery. The blue lines are the current newbie margins. The red lines, the gym rat. Anything inside the margins equals their current ability or comfort zone. Anything lying out side these lines equals the potential for growth and progress.
Times a wastin you got your goals now go ID your Margins. Next week Ill discuss the next step Action, How one uses these defined abilities to progress toward their goals.
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