Even top athletes can't take shortcuts. Quite the opposite: the best are perhaps simply more willing than everyone else to do what it takes to achieve success.
Even top athletes can't take shortcuts. Quite the opposite: the best are perhaps simply more willing than everyone else to do what it takes to achieve success.
The Olympic Games aren't over yet and the various statements from athletes and coaches always mention one key factor for success: consistency. While this might sound pretty simple, it can be difficult for us amateur athletes to acquire this key to success. After all, we have so many obligations and distractions and only 24 hours in a day. However, it's worth trying to improve your consistency if you can. Consistency doesn’t mean that you need to train more often and more intensively; it ‘just’ means following your goal consistently and systematically - without breaks and injuries - over the course of several months.
Listen to the interesting short interview with Brett Sutton, the coach of silver medallist Julie Derron.
You now need to think about successfully implementing your realistic goal based on your plan. You'll see that it becomes easier to train regularly when you have a goal in sight, when you've thought about what content you can put in training sessions, but more importantly, when you know that consistent training will help you achieve your goal.
At the beginning of June, the 27-year-old from Ticino narrowly missed out on a medal in the uphill mountain race at the European championships, finishing fourth. Two days later, the reigning Swiss mountain race champion won the European up & down mountain race title.
Sleep is often described as the best medicine and one of the most important means of recovery. This crucial rest phase deserves more attention than we usually give it.
