How Do You Know You’ve Made An Improvement? 

How Do You Know You’ve Made An Improvement? 

How do you know you’ve made an improvement from one practice session to another?  By measuring failure, or rather, by measuring its reduction from one session to the next. If you repeat a challenging practice set and have measured what, when, where, and how and...
How Well Are You Benefiting From Your Training Failures?

How Well Are You Benefiting From Your Training Failures?

In many settings in our culture, ‘failure’ is a personally-negative word, with unpleasant psychological or social implications. But in engineering, and in particular, in research and design, failure is an important, impersonal, and even positive output of...
What keeps you going, day after day, year after year?

What keeps you going, day after day, year after year?

There are some questions I sometimes ask myself or others to reflect on what supports one’s longevity in athletic activity, or I could use them to explore what might be standing in the way of doing it more if they haven’t found that consistency yet.  How...
First, Build A Sufficient Fitness Tank

First, Build A Sufficient Fitness Tank

I wrote last recently on the idea of having two fuel tanks, one for fitness activities and the other on reserve for survival. Using that analogy as a reference point, and linking to the concerns I raised in the essay last week regarding knowing when you are ready for...
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