Work towards your goals. Don’t just dance around them
As much as it is fun and exciting to do random challenges and workouts that you see online, or make up in that crazy awesome head of yours. Your style of programming, may (or most likely will) end poorly.
Don’t get me wrong, I love the epic workout challenge just as much as the next person. But comeing from someone that has been writing programs for over a decade, it’s very important to know that randomness increases the likelihood of injury and reduces the effects of training which means that your performance suffers.
Yes moving and training is the most important thing.
So if that’s all you can manage right now, then 100% go for it.
However, you need to know a few things:
1. A well designed program needs to first be designed around safety. What you do tomorrow will be effected by what you did today and possibly the day before. And there’s more to it than just swapping shoulders for legs. Especially if you’re a crossfitter.
2. A well designed program has a goal in mind, and is designed to help you achieve it.
Training when it is random, is fun and exciting until you realise that you aren’t improving anymore.
3. A well designed program should be fun and exciting. But it first needs to address the first 2 rules.
So keep training, keep moving, keep having fun.
But remember, there’s a low ceiling on random training, and when you hit it, injury tends to come soon after.
Keep your hands clean.
Keep your head up.
And keep training.
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