Time will magically “run away” from you if you don’t.
“Athletes in the summer: Front load your training earlier in the week, if you have busy weekends.
No only will this aid in the recovery process from a long weekend of play, it will ensure you get your training in to keep you constantly progressing.
Procrastination kills.”
-Ray Zingler on Twitter
Do you know how easy it is to say, “I’m too busy” to simply shield yourself from a commitment?
It’s quite literally effortless.
Now, acknowledging that you don’t do a great job of managing your time and following through on your commitments when you get tired or don’t feel like it? That is an entirely different story, albeit likely a far more accurate one.
We are currently in Summer #13 at Zingler Strength and a norm that I’ve picked up on over the years is this:
Those who typically get all of their training sessions in (and consequently make the most progress) get their sessions in starting earlier in the week.
Sports like baseball, softball, lacrosse, soccer, and even volleyball are going to have crazy busy weekends, whereas football in June and July are going to have busy midweeks.
What I’ve noticed, and the girls we have do an especially good job of this (not that the boys don’t, too) is they get their training in early in the week.
By jumping in on a session Monday AM or Tuesday, not only are you starting your week off right, you’re decreasing the chances of missing training sessions by attacking them early.
Sometimes we are under the illusion of having time.
“Long weekend of play, take Monday off, ahh I’ll take another rest day Tuesday..” BOOM before you know it, it’s midweek and you’re now trying to balance the commitments that pop up on your schedule (typically video games and maybe the driving range) while also knowing another tournament starts in 2 days. And before your eyes, that “time you had” is now swallowed up and gone and then we say things like “where does the time go?”
I’ll tell you where it goes. It runs away quickly if we’re not disciplined enough to manage and take ownership of it.
I know it can be tough. I know you’re tired. I know you may not “feel like it”, but training early in the week will not only help you to work off some of the soreness/lethargy from the prior weekend of play, it will ensure you’re at your best (the best you can be with an overloaded volume of play) by the time the next weekend rolls around.
