- Stop reading this blog!
It is amazing in this internet age how much time we dedicate to sitting at your computer, mobile phone or electronic gadget that can upload your thoughts, feeling sand emotions! A little sum of time spent posting on your favourite training / information forum for instance makes startling reading!
- Stop posting too much on forums!
Let’s say you post regularly on a forum. Maybe you posted 500 posts over the year.
Let’s say it takes 2mins to write a small post, that makes 500 x 2min of your time = 1000min = 16hrs!
How about if it takes 5min per post (to log in, add post, click out) = 500 x 5min = 42hrs!
What about if you post 1000 times in a year at 2min = 33hrs!
1000 x 5min per post = 83hrs!
- Stop living on facebook!
Let’s look at facebook!!!
Some of you athlete’s / fitness enthusiasts could spend minutes, sometimes hours looking, posting, reading, reviewing at posts, videos, pictures, photos… the list is endless!
No-one cares what you ate for breakfast (unless your a World Champion / Olympic Gold Medallist… then it’s just plain interesting to see what champions eat!)… or what your religious background is or what quotes from famous people you can come up with that don’t even resemble who YOU are as a person!
Just say 30min a day (being VERY conservative here!) over a year based on 5 days a week (and I know some of you may say ‘I don’t log in that much’… reality check… be honest with yourselves… probably more like 5-7 days a week right if you have the chance!).
30min a day x 350 days a year = 175hrs a year (conservative estimate right?).
Add the time on facebook and forums up and your looking at a possible 200hrs of training time you could have done!
However, we want to catch up with friends, family etc… right? And ‘have a life’! So maybe halve that amount and you have a good guideline of the potential training you could have been doing rather than posting on forums, reading training books, asking people, trying to find what training to do!
100hrs of extra training is a substantial amount of time that is easily the difference between being a good age grouper and a top performing age grouper. Or doing a good Ironman time and a great Ironman time.
Whilst I can’t tell you individually what to do, I have seen so many times when I do post on forums to help others that there are many postees that have 1000, 2000, 3000, 4000 posts or more and all trying to get that golden ticket or nugget of information.
STOP! Get out there and do something, raise your pulse, build a sweat, swim, bike, run, walk, lift weights, commute to / from work, play on a trampoline with your kids… whatever it is you do, do it for the love of it and stop wasting your life building varicose veins staring at a screen and trying to think up ways or get people how to train… in the words of a rather famous sportswear company… JUST DO IT!!!
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