Have you ever asked yourself why you train? Have you ever written out your goals for today? Your goals for the week, your goals for the month, for the year, for the next 3 years, for the next 5? If the answer is no, I don't have a list of goals anywhere. Then I ask again why do you train? Why do you train the way you do?
Every training program will produce a result of some kind. There will also be negatives from every training program. If you fail to plan for success than you plan for failure and you fail to account for the negatives until one day it seems like out of the blue your shoulder hurts or your knee hurts or everything hurts. That's because you have had vision for today but nothing beyond.
Do you train to experience an emotional feeling you do not get from your personal life? Or from your professional life? This is common for everyone because life can be hard and we don't always get things the way we want them. Training is about improvement each day. It's about doing what's optimal for the body so that it can function at its best in the scenarios we face each day. Its the same as nutrition the more you plan for what you want the more likely you will get a result.
Train to get the result you want and if you are not getting that result than change your training program. Look at where you have opportunities in your program to improve. That can mean to do less training!!! that can mean to do MORE stretching or that can mean to get more sleep and eat better. That can mean that if you just adjusted the amount of times you looked at your phone your neck would feel better or if you had a zero tolerance for pain instead of i'm ok with this little bit of pain.
What are the reasons you train? What are your short term goals? What are your long term goals? If you don't know the answers to these questions than you are on your way or already have harmed yourself physically and probably emotionally.
