The Simple Method

How to become a better athlete

Intro

In this post, I am going to go over my philosophy on how I schedule my training. I think it could help you.

I would like to start this off by stating that I consider myself to be a lazy person. I work hard, but I often procrastinate if what I need to do is complicated.

That being said, I know that I have to account for laziness in my training plan. I accomplish this by making the plan SIMPLE.

I eat the same things everyday, and I do the same workouts each week.

Common Training Problems

I grew up playing competitive soccer, so I have been “training” for most of my life, but started really taking it seriously around 5 years ago.

I’ve had multiple people tell me about how they’re starting to train. They’ve jumped on the internet, and they have the PERFECT PLAN. “Influencer X Workout Program”, chicken, rice, broccoli, and 1 gallon of water per day, etc.. They’re committed to it, and they’re going to be jacked by summer!!

They’ll say things to me like.

“You don’t lift enough”

“Your diet isn’t perfect”

“Why do you run so slow”

“You aren’t at the gym long enough”

“Why do you do X? You could be doing Y, YouTube says that it’s 11.6% more efficient”

And you know what, they’re all 100% right. But what they get wrong is that their PERFECT PLAN is incredibly difficult to follow for a long enough time period to notice any results.

In my experience most peoples gym journey looks something like this:

  1. Start going to the gym
  2. Research the most optimal training plan (there’s no shortage)
  3. Start going really hard in the gym (3+ hrs at the gym, 2-a-days, burnout sets, etc…)
  4. Perfect nutrition (chicken, rice, broccoli, 1 gal of water per day)

Until… Either 1 of 2 things happens:

  1. Overtraining – They push way too hard in the gym… and get injured.
  2. Burnout – Their routine is too hard to follow for more than a few months.

The Simple Method

I believe the formula for success with training looks something like this:

(Workouts + Nutrition + Sleep) x Time

TIME is the most important variable, not the workouts, not nutrition, and not sleep. You do need all three of those components, but TIME is the most important.

IT DOESN’T MATTER HOW PERFECT YOUR PLAN IS, IF YOU CAN’T STICK TO IT

My philosophy is simple:

Make the training plan SO SIMPLE, that it is easier to follow it, than to not.

To be continued…