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FixedGearFever - :: View topic - ATTITUDES TO TRAINING/RACING/FORUMS
Posted: Tue Dec 13, 2005 4:12 pm Post subject: ATTITUDES TO TRAINING/RACING/FORUMS
This is a quote that was sent to me by a very wise friend which I have modified slightly to suit some of the people who post "negativley" on these forums.
There has been a couple of things I have noticed from 2-3 of you (who post on this site) that I feel isn't really conducive to each athlete improving their performance & long term could impact negatively on the wider team. Some of you have been finishing up training sessions &/or races feeling pretty despondent about your performance (or posting very negative coments, resorting to swearwords and even silly name calling.) This is only natural amongst a group of highly driven individuals. The challenge for each of you when you feel you aren't performing to your own expectations is to decide what you are going to do about it.
What is the purpose of training? One obvious answer is to strengthen all the elements required for your sport. The less obvious answer, & the one we don't always like, is to expose our weaknesses! Put a bunch of super competitive people together on the track & start recording times, and before you know it, training becomes another race - who can get the best times; the most PB's etc. But often the winner at training isn't the one who did the fastest standing 100m, but the person who had the slowest time, realised why, & took action to remedy it. They had their weakness exposed in a setting that allowed them to get feedback, learn what had happened & why, & put together a plan to fix it. The guy who didn't have their weaknesses exposed in training will more than likely get them exposed in a competition & it will hurt so much more.
In a race, it is you against everyone, but in training, it is you against you. Try not to get to hooked up in anyone elses performance. Focus on yourself & what it is you are trying to achieve from the session. Don't ask about anybody elses time - ask about your own. "Am I quicker than I was on the last run" rather than "Did I beat so & so". Ask about the objectives of the session at the start. Ask both yourself & the coaches there about how this applies to you. Doing standing starts - great! Be clear on what you need to work on for these. Core strength, holding the bike straight, getting over the gear quickly, etc. Make sure you know what it means to you rather than go through the motions. Ask for feedback. Watch the other athletes. What is making the fast ones fast? It's these sorts of things that will lead to greater improvement rather than just showing up & doing what you have to.
As part of your cooldown strategies, think about how the session went. Reinforce the positives in your own mind, but also take something constructive from the negatives. Don't let a bad session bring your attitude down for the next one.
jb1566, You are the guy that is more worried about how "Did I beat so and so" rather than did "I go faster than my last run".
You resort to rubbishing other peoples ideas/suggestions and using the phrase "B.S" or "name calling" and appear as if you are scared of trying something new for fear of failing.
If you always do what you have always done, you always get what you have always got.
After a sackful of medals at Oceanias and a National U19 record looks like I will have vast amounts of egg on face after Nationals for bagging you guys.
You big bloody poof Disco!!! That's my email & I would like to see royalties on that or next time I give you a hold at the track, you will be getting tipped over with the start gun!!
jb1566, You are the guy that is more worried about how "Did I beat so and so" rather than did "I go faster than my last run".
You resort to rubbishing other peoples ideas/suggestions and using the phrase "B.S" or "name calling" and appear as if you are scared of trying something new for fear of failing.
If you always do what you have always done, you always get what you have always got.
Try something new!
How do you go from me thinking that throwing the weight sled is not a good idea to me talking about "beating so and so...."?
Scared of trying new ideas for fear of failing? Huh?
Dude, we were talking about a particular exercise, one that I happen to think is "not so optimal"....is that a non-threating, not confrontational enough of a way to put it?
You cant lump overall attitudes to one topic bro....
I though guys downunder were suppose to be rough and tuff and not easily offended....oh thats the continent just to the south of you....
Continent just to the south, you talking about Antartica pal? You know a couple of good cyclists from those parts do ya, in fact do you know anybody from Antarctica? Im guessing your from America so you probably don't even know a person outside your state let alone the little idiosyncrasies of the world map, you know north, east, south and west and so forth BRO.
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That's my email & I would like to see royalties on that or next time I give you a hold at the track, you will be getting tipped over with the start gun!! 
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