“Instead of ‘work your weaknesses’, lets change the mantra to ‘love working on your weaknesses’.“
-Dave MacLeod
How many times have you found yourself thinking “not today, but tomorrow for sure” or “I’m just not psyched now, I’ll do it later”….putting off training your weaknesses until another time?
What if you could change your approach to this type of training and go into it with a new mindset? I bet it would help.
Dave MacLeod thinks so…
“The task is to actually love the activity itself, regardless of improvement. However, the enjoyment you take could be quite tangential to the actual activity. Taking my fingerboarding again. I used to do it in my living room and watch tennis matches during my workouts and found it really relaxing. Similarly I hated running but used to love the focused time to visualise moves on my projects. These days I’m lucky to be able to explore new mountain glens on every run I do. It’s hard not to have a good time. It might even be that in working on a type of climbing (lets say it’s bouldering) you know you are awful at, you simply enjoy the freedom from any internal pressure to perform well. Maybe you simply even learned to enjoy the pain of being pumped!“
This article by Dave MacLeod from his blog, onlineclimbingcoach.blogspot.com, goes further into how to change training your weaknesses from feeling like a chore to something you may actually enjoy…
READ IT HERE: Love is the Answer
