Summer Training Motivation

Staying focused on training during summer can turn out to be quite a task. The season seems like it is months, you may not be around your teammates, and your job may leave you feeling tired and impartial after a rough day at the office. Whether you are running, doing cross-fits, lifting, or tossing, sometimes you need that little extra push to get going. Here are some things to think about while you are determining whether or not you should workout.

- Train with friends – a 10 miler sucks a lot less when you can talk with someone. It is a whole lot harder to give during a hard workout when you are with a buddy. For some, the temptation to give up when solo is too much.

- You know your teammates are training – as good of friends as we are all, we all know that there are a finite number of spots on the field and on the team. Therefore, becoming paranoid and freaking yourself out by internally muttering, “I know Phelan’s training right now, so I need to be too.”

- Its awesome outside – take your shirt off and get a tan. You don’t want to kicking yourself because you fretted away the warmth of summer come cross-fits in the winter.

- Have a reward waiting after your workout – you worked hard, why shouldn’t be rewarded for sweat and determination? A nice glass of lemonade or a beer would be refreshing.

- Set goals for yourself – reach a new max on bench, map out a run on gmap-pedometer.com to try and PR, or anything else that can be measured. Make short and long term goals for the month, season, or year. Just remember that you might not achieve the goals right away, these things take time. Just keep working at it.