3rd Fast...and 1 task a day
I started my 3rd fast last night.
No problems at all until the last 2 intervals in my swim session this afternoon.
Yesterday's session was an aerobic session lots of long intervals. Todays was a sprint session. Being fasted didn't effect me at all for 95% of the session but literally towards the end and the hypoxic sets, I went straight into the red zone of no energy. By my last set my body stopped working, couldn't even manage a single length of breastroke by the end.
I think swimming makes an interesting analogy for life and success. When I first started back I used to go out hell for leather and within a couple of lengths be hanging out my backside, and with swimming that makes every stroke miserable, because you can't breathe, panic sets in and it just gets worse. Eventually within a very short period you have to stop.
Yesterday and then today I didn't take that approach, I settled in focussed on my breathing and technique, long strokes but still with decent cadence. Breathing taken care of and deliberately staying within myself I went through 2 x200m comfortably, something I couldn't do a year ago.
So how does this work as an analogy.
About 13 years ago I was training an incredibly successful banker, on the cusp of becoming the CEO. I asked him what he thought was the secret of his success. His answer was surprisingly simple.
"Everyday I did one more thing than the people around me. At the end of the first week I'd accomplished 5 more tasks, at the end of a month 20 more. Now that doesn't sound like much but over a year that's 240 more tasks and you start to open a gap. In 10 years you've accomplished 2,400 more tasks or completions and that is a significant difference."
Slow and steady. Measured, strategic and in action every single day....
What do you want to achieve?
I taught myself to draw in 6 weeks one summer. At the beginning I couldn't draw, within 2 days I was significantly better, within 6 weeks I was considered one of the best producer of design sketches on my degree course. Just a question of daily practise.
1 task a day...
No problems at all until the last 2 intervals in my swim session this afternoon.
Yesterday's session was an aerobic session lots of long intervals. Todays was a sprint session. Being fasted didn't effect me at all for 95% of the session but literally towards the end and the hypoxic sets, I went straight into the red zone of no energy. By my last set my body stopped working, couldn't even manage a single length of breastroke by the end.
I think swimming makes an interesting analogy for life and success. When I first started back I used to go out hell for leather and within a couple of lengths be hanging out my backside, and with swimming that makes every stroke miserable, because you can't breathe, panic sets in and it just gets worse. Eventually within a very short period you have to stop.
Yesterday and then today I didn't take that approach, I settled in focussed on my breathing and technique, long strokes but still with decent cadence. Breathing taken care of and deliberately staying within myself I went through 2 x200m comfortably, something I couldn't do a year ago.
So how does this work as an analogy.
About 13 years ago I was training an incredibly successful banker, on the cusp of becoming the CEO. I asked him what he thought was the secret of his success. His answer was surprisingly simple.
"Everyday I did one more thing than the people around me. At the end of the first week I'd accomplished 5 more tasks, at the end of a month 20 more. Now that doesn't sound like much but over a year that's 240 more tasks and you start to open a gap. In 10 years you've accomplished 2,400 more tasks or completions and that is a significant difference."
Slow and steady. Measured, strategic and in action every single day....
What do you want to achieve?
I taught myself to draw in 6 weeks one summer. At the beginning I couldn't draw, within 2 days I was significantly better, within 6 weeks I was considered one of the best producer of design sketches on my degree course. Just a question of daily practise.
1 task a day...
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