Subliminal progression

    When we start getting active there is an adaption time in which we face the discouragement of not being good at some thing, we get tired fast,  often compare ourselves to others and spend much time in mental conflict that leaves us to decide to quit or persevere. Yet this is the birth time of adventure and you are subliminally gaining progress when we decide to embrace the discomfort and continue.
    
     Unless you are a prodigy of some sort you will recognize the constant struggles, yet we are rarely mindful of the progress we make. In doing we gain experience, with mistakes we learn lessons, and with practice we come closer to mastering. So each training session is getting you to the better version of you. The time you spend to educate yourself is important, because you increase your sources of information available to apply. Learning what your body adapts to is an ongoing experiment that you are in control of. Be encouraged you are better than you were last week, last month and last year.

     The ability to recognize small progressions gives us the insight to add things that will help our journey to improvement. Daily choices will create our future, and we have endless options to get the most of our tomorrows. Adding time to your life for most rest is a sure way to see instant progress in anything. Investing time in breathing exercises a few minutes several times through out the day is a great example of some thing that will add up over time.

     Being mindful of our actions in day to day life can also lead us to look at things we may need to change.Things we do that are self destructive, or harmful to us. This can be the nutrition, sugary drinks, lack of proper hydration, or even our negative mindset in situations. The suffering we bring on ourselves by constantly comparing ourselves to others is popular in competitive athletes. We often rob the joy of the activity in the obsession to be better. If you find you dread training take a look at intentions, and get back to the simple love of what you do. We will be better at what we do, whether it is a good or bad thing for us.

     Some examples of things you can add to aid in any conditioning are the following;
       Breathing exercises in traffic
       Each day of the week pick a body weight exercise to do several times through out the day.
       Add in stretching
       Spend 10 mins a day walking as part of your morning or evening routine
       Pick a day of the month to challenge yourself in what you are doing.
      
     Remember that what you practice you will master, eventually. Never loose the joy of what you are doing.
    
      In my long journey of running I get setback over and over, yet I know I will eventually conquer an ultra because I have my mind made up and will rejoice in the smalls things. I think about the classic question and complaint of a child on a car trip, "are we there yet?". When I was young there was no GPS, so some times there was the scenic route instead and it was always better in the long run. The journey is the fun part, the people we meet along the way, the laughable mistakes we make, and priceless memories of progress we would never know if we quit when it is uncomfortable.