Judging the Success of Your Training

How do you know if you've had a successful training session? Because you vomited halfway through it? Because you can't walk the next day? Because its the hardest thing you've ever done.... is it the best thing you've ever done?

Sadly this is how training seems to be recognized. The reality is anyone who can read a book, or get on the internet can make a training session ridiculously hard. Creating a workout that causes significant muscle soreness, or the desire to send ones lunch into a strategically placed garbage pail is pretty simple. Some trainers feel a sense of accomplishment when their clients are miserable. They wear it like a badge of honor, and there are a handful of athletes and parents that seem to relish in it as well.

Quality of a training session should not be judged by its difficulty, rather by its results. A single training session is a small but intricate part of the overall goal. The desire to jump higher, run faster, throw harder or hit with more power drives the need for training. Very few people train simply because they enjoy training. Training can become addictive, but its still not the training that is enjoyed, its the feelings that come from training.

One workout builds on another, and another. Each providing the stimulus for the body to change and adapt. Over time the body undergoes changes and can now do things it was incapable of before. Then the training is successful.

I'm not advocating an eye wash workout, effort and determination are still required, as is a plan. The plan needs to be smart, focused on getting the body to adapt and make real world changes that carry over to the field or court of competition. There should be a system of training, and the system should not involved mapping out the spots in the facility where athletes tend to regurgitate the most.

EXPLOSION training can offer you such a plan. We've been achieving real world results challenging athletes and having fun while doing it for over 8 years. Want to see for yourself? Get started with a free trial of EXPLOSION.