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Endurance as a Distraction
Harnessing the Odds for Success beyond the Finish Line
According to my extremely rough figures after a quick google search. Around 4.41 billion people play sport on planet earth. That is well over half of our 7.67 billion population. Good job earthlings! They say only the 1% of the 1% actually get paid to play sport at the top level (again, these are rough figures). One percent of 4.41 billion is 44,100,000, that is fourty-four milllion, one hundred thousand and 1% of that is 440,000. That still seems like a lot to me but relax for a second.
If you are not one of the 440,000 that gets paid to play sport, you are using sport as a distraction. Definition of distraction, a thing that prevents someone from concentrating on something else. We do hobbies to take our mind off work, life, home, stress. People also drink alcohol and eat shit food to do the same. I want to make this very clear, doing sport as your distraction is in most cases far healthier than most other options!
But when does it become unhealthy to use sport as a distraction? and in particular endurance sport. I am writing about endurance sport for two reasons, 1) it is what I know and 2) it is probably the sport most abused for distraction.
The benefits to endurance sport are in my eyes, endless. Day to day we (at InnerFight Endurance) use endurance sport to make people better at life. We in still self-belief, we empower, we dig out true potential, we discover grit in all our athletes. They then take those new found traits and go smash life with it, it’s why we have the best job in the world. Like all good things though, these trainable traits can be addictive. How good does it feel to cross that finish line and be the most confident person in the world for a few seconds? It’s epic. But do we get it each time we cross a finish line? No… only when it’s gone really well. The more we race, the more chance we have to go wrong, that is just statistics… but we also have more chance to go right… now we are gambling.
Here are some more stats for you; World gambling statistics show that around 26% of the population gamble. That means around 1.6 billion people worldwide gamble and 4.2 billion people gamble at least once every year. The average US gambler loses $400 every year.
So when we enter event after event after event, or set big goal after big goal after big goal… we are gambling. The reward is self-beleif, empowerment, potential realisation and grit, the punishment is the loss of them all.
So endurance sport should be used wisely, we want to load the odds into our favour. It’s why we have training blocks, coaches to help us and better equipment year on year. So we aren’t like those average US gamblers.
If we just enter things to distract ourselves from life and not pay attention to the odds, you are going to fail at some point. You will get injured or burnt out because you don’t care about the process, you just want the thrill of the gamble…
I’d love to help you figure out your odds.
ENGINE
Long EMOM with a mixture of machines and body weight exercises.
GYMNASTICS
This Tuesday, we’re focusing on pull-up progressions! Strict, kipping, and butterfly will appear, followed by lat and core supersets.
On Thursday evening, we’ll focus on handstand hold progressions before having some fun with handstand walks and finishing off the session with core and strength work.
HYROX
This is the Last Simulation before race week. We will lower the volume but keep the intensity high to make sure you are ready for race day!
ENGINE: Long EMOM with a mixture of machines and body weight exercises
MOBILITY
This week, we have the topic: Why are your calves and hamstrings always tight? What can we do to remedy this? Get yourself booked in, and I will show you! This is a great session for everyone, but it is extra beneficial to those runners out there!
PURE STRENGTH
This week's pure strength, we have a chance to progress our 20 RM RDL, followed by some heavy press and strict press cluster sets.
WEIGHTLIFTING
This week in weightlifting, we are focusing on the squat clean. With a fun complex followed by some pulls. Perfect technique session, working on the barbell timing and full depth in the clean
Monday Ride
A ride dedicated to group riding skills and some fitness. Coach Rob Foster leads this ride, if you'd like to join email Rob Foster.
Start time: 05:59 am
Session Length: 1.5 hour
Location: The Loop Cafe, Bike DXB
Track Tuesday
Our weekly on track speed session! For any level of runner looking to build their run speed, threshold and Vo2max fitness and run with the best running community in Dubai.
Time: 05:59 am
Session Length: 1.5 hour
Location: Dubai Sports City Sports Park
Friday - Coffee Run
Our weekly tempo run. Sessions are built on an RPE scale and accessible to all levels of runner. We start together, run hard then finish together and chat about it over a coffee and breakfast.
Brief time: 05:54 am
Start time: 05:59 am
Start Location: Common Grounds
Saturday - Jebel Jais Ride
Today our weekly endurance ride is at Jebel Jais! If you're interested to join email us here.
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Monday
There is no in person session this week at LRC. Those who are Unlimited Members, your Training Peaks have been programmed still.
Tuesday
Time: 5:59am
Location: Dubai Sports City Sports Park
Session: Track Tuesday
This is your chance to run fast with the wider IFE community and coaches. This week we will be running 600m repeats. Which will start at 5km pace and progress to 3km pace, so that the pace increases within each rep.
Wednesday
There is no in person session this week at LRC. Those who are Unlimited Members, your Training Peaks have been programmed still.
Friday
Time: 5:59am
Location: Common Grounds
Session: The Coffee Run
This week we will be running a negative split session, meaning that the second half is faster than the first. After 30 mins of easy running, lock into a 20 mins block of effort from 7 - 9 RPE.
Saturday
Time: 5:15am
Location: Cape Town
Session: Two Oceans
Today the 56km runners will be taking on Two Oceans.
Sunday
Time: 6:00am
Location: Cape Town
Session: Two Oceans
Today the 21km runners will be taking on Two Oceans.
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Eid Mubarak, we hope you all have a great long weekend! Class times are different this week, so please check the schedule on Mindbody! We have a great week lined up, so see you all on the gym floor!
Monday:
We start the week with an epic partner workout. Grab a partner, and let's start the week with a bang!
Conditioning:
40 min amrap in pairs
50 Cal Row
6 wall walks
50 CB Clean and Jerk
6 Wall Walks
50 Box Jump Overs
6 Wall Walks
Tuesday:
On Tuesday, we have some push-and-pull work in our strength area, focused on overhead pressing, and then 2 12-minute AMRAPs for you to get stuck into.
Strength:
Every 90 sec x 8 Alt between
A: 8 Dual DB Z press
B: 20 Alt Gorilla Rows
Conditioning:
12 min amrap
30 Wall balls
30/25 cal ski
30 Double Unders
Rest 3 Mins
12 min amrap
30/25 Sal Ass bike
20 V Ups
20 Russian KB Swings
Wednesday:
Wednesday, we are hitting some paused back squats in the strength, and then we get after a real grind of a WOD with some burpee pull-ups, front squats, and running.
Strength:
Every 2 mins x 6 - 3/3/2/2/1/1 Tempo Back Squats @21X1
Conditioning:
10 rounds for time
5 Front Squats
Pool Run
5 burpee pull-ups
Thursday:
Thursday, snatch complex with some accessory, followed by the workout ACID BATH.
Strength:
Every 2 mins x 8 - 1 Snatch Pull + 1 hang Power Snatch +
1 Power snatch
rest 3 mins
Every 2 mins x 3 - 5 Snatch Grip Deadlift
Conditioning:
For time
500m ski
500m row
1000m c2 bike
Friday:
FUF - Finishing the week with some push-pull work in the strength, before an all-in barbell workout to end the week! What Better!
Strength:
Every 2 mins x 5 - 5 push press
rest 3 mins
Every 2 mins x 4 complete 6 DB bench Press @ 30x1 + 3-5 strict pull ups
Conditioning:
5 min amrap
9 Deadlift
6 Hang Power Clean
3 STOH
Rest 3 mins x 3
According to my extremely rough figures after a quick google search. Around 4.41 billion people play sport on planet earth. That is well over half of our 7.67 billion population. Good job earthlings! They say only the 1% of the 1% actually get paid to play sport at the top level (again, these are rough figures). One percent of 4.41 billion is 44,100,000, that is fourty-four milllion, one hundred thousand and 1% of that is 440,000. That still seems like a lot to me but relax for a second.
If you are not one of the 440,000 that gets paid to play sport, you are using sport as a distraction. Definition of distraction, a thing that prevents someone from concentrating on something else. We do hobbies to take our mind off work, life, home, stress. People also drink alcohol and eat shit food to do the same. I want to make this very clear, doing sport as your distraction is in most cases far healthier than most other options!
But when does it become unhealthy to use sport as a distraction? and in particular endurance sport. I am writing about endurance sport for two reasons, 1) it is what I know and 2) it is probably the sport most abused for distraction.
The benefits to endurance sport are in my eyes, endless. Day to day we (at InnerFight Endurance) use endurance sport to make people better at life. We in still self-belief, we empower, we dig out true potential, we discover grit in all our athletes. They then take those new found traits and go smash life with it, it’s why we have the best job in the world. Like all good things though, these trainable traits can be addictive. How good does it feel to cross that finish line and be the most confident person in the world for a few seconds? It’s epic. But do we get it each time we cross a finish line? No… only when it’s gone really well. The more we race, the more chance we have to go wrong, that is just statistics… but we also have more chance to go right… now we are gambling.
Here are some more stats for you; World gambling statistics show that around 26% of the population gamble. That means around 1.6 billion people worldwide gamble and 4.2 billion people gamble at least once every year. The average US gambler loses $400 every year.
So when we enter event after event after event, or set big goal after big goal after big goal… we are gambling. The reward is self-beleif, empowerment, potential realisation and grit, the punishment is the loss of them all.
So endurance sport should be used wisely, we want to load the odds into our favour. It’s why we have training blocks, coaches to help us and better equipment year on year. So we aren’t like those average US gamblers.
If we just enter things to distract ourselves from life and not pay attention to the odds, you are going to fail at some point. You will get injured or burnt out because you don’t care about the process, you just want the thrill of the gamble…
I’d love to help you figure out your odds.
Monday Ride
A ride dedicated to group riding skills and some fitness. Coach Rob Foster leads this ride, if you'd like to join email Rob Foster.
Start time: 05:59 am
Session Length: 1.5 hour
Location: The Loop Cafe, Bike DXB
Track Tuesday
Our weekly on track speed session! For any level of runner looking to build their run speed, threshold and Vo2max fitness and run with the best running community in Dubai.
Time: 05:59 am
Session Length: 1.5 hour
Location: Dubai Sports City Sports Park
Friday - Coffee Run
Our weekly tempo run. Sessions are built on an RPE scale and accessible to all levels of runner. We start together, run hard then finish together and chat about it over a coffee and breakfast.
Brief time: 05:54 am
Start time: 05:59 am
Start Location: Common Grounds
Saturday - Jebel Jais Ride
Today our weekly endurance ride is at Jebel Jais! If you're interested to join email us here.
Monday
There is no in person session this week at LRC. Those who are Unlimited Members, your Training Peaks have been programmed still.
Tuesday
Time: 5:59am
Location: Dubai Sports City Sports Park
Session: Track Tuesday
This is your chance to run fast with the wider IFE community and coaches. This week we will be running 600m repeats. Which will start at 5km pace and progress to 3km pace, so that the pace increases within each rep.
Wednesday
There is no in person session this week at LRC. Those who are Unlimited Members, your Training Peaks have been programmed still.
Friday
Time: 5:59am
Location: Common Grounds
Session: The Coffee Run
This week we will be running a negative split session, meaning that the second half is faster than the first. After 30 mins of easy running, lock into a 20 mins block of effort from 7 - 9 RPE.
Saturday
Time: 5:15am
Location: Cape Town
Session: Two Oceans
Today the 56km runners will be taking on Two Oceans.
Sunday
Time: 6:00am
Location: Cape Town
Session: Two Oceans
Today the 21km runners will be taking on Two Oceans.
Eid Mubarak, we hope you all have a great long weekend! Class times are different this week, so please check the schedule on Mindbody! We have a great week lined up, so see you all on the gym floor!
Monday:
We start the week with an epic partner workout. Grab a partner, and let's start the week with a bang!
Conditioning:
40 min amrap in pairs
50 Cal Row
6 wall walks
50 CB Clean and Jerk
6 Wall Walks
50 Box Jump Overs
6 Wall Walks
Tuesday:
On Tuesday, we have some push-and-pull work in our strength area, focused on overhead pressing, and then 2 12-minute AMRAPs for you to get stuck into.
Strength:
Every 90 sec x 8 Alt between
A: 8 Dual DB Z press
B: 20 Alt Gorilla Rows
Conditioning:
12 min amrap
30 Wall balls
30/25 cal ski
30 Double Unders
Rest 3 Mins
12 min amrap
30/25 Sal Ass bike
20 V Ups
20 Russian KB Swings
Wednesday:
Wednesday, we are hitting some paused back squats in the strength, and then we get after a real grind of a WOD with some burpee pull-ups, front squats, and running.
Strength:
Every 2 mins x 6 - 3/3/2/2/1/1 Tempo Back Squats @21X1
Conditioning:
10 rounds for time
5 Front Squats
Pool Run
5 burpee pull-ups
Thursday:
Thursday, snatch complex with some accessory, followed by the workout ACID BATH.
Strength:
Every 2 mins x 8 - 1 Snatch Pull + 1 hang Power Snatch +
1 Power snatch
rest 3 mins
Every 2 mins x 3 - 5 Snatch Grip Deadlift
Conditioning:
For time
500m ski
500m row
1000m c2 bike
Friday:
FUF - Finishing the week with some push-pull work in the strength, before an all-in barbell workout to end the week! What Better!
Strength:
Every 2 mins x 5 - 5 push press
rest 3 mins
Every 2 mins x 4 complete 6 DB bench Press @ 30x1 + 3-5 strict pull ups
Conditioning:
5 min amrap
9 Deadlift
6 Hang Power Clean
3 STOH
Rest 3 mins x 3
ENGINE
Long EMOM with a mixture of machines and body weight exercises.
GYMNASTICS
This Tuesday, we’re focusing on pull-up progressions! Strict, kipping, and butterfly will appear, followed by lat and core supersets.
On Thursday evening, we’ll focus on handstand hold progressions before having some fun with handstand walks and finishing off the session with core and strength work.
HYROX
This is the Last Simulation before race week. We will lower the volume but keep the intensity high to make sure you are ready for race day!
ENGINE: Long EMOM with a mixture of machines and body weight exercises
MOBILITY
This week, we have the topic: Why are your calves and hamstrings always tight? What can we do to remedy this? Get yourself booked in, and I will show you! This is a great session for everyone, but it is extra beneficial to those runners out there!
PURE STRENGTH
This week's pure strength, we have a chance to progress our 20 RM RDL, followed by some heavy press and strict press cluster sets.
WEIGHTLIFTING
This week in weightlifting, we are focusing on the squat clean. With a fun complex followed by some pulls. Perfect technique session, working on the barbell timing and full depth in the clean
According to my extremely rough figures after a quick google search. Around 4.41 billion people play sport on planet earth. That is well over half of our 7.67 billion population. Good job earthlings! They say only the 1% of the 1% actually get paid to play sport at the top level (again, these are rough figures). One percent of 4.41 billion is 44,100,000, that is fourty-four milllion, one hundred thousand and 1% of that is 440,000. That still seems like a lot to me but relax for a second.
If you are not one of the 440,000 that gets paid to play sport, you are using sport as a distraction. Definition of distraction, a thing that prevents someone from concentrating on something else. We do hobbies to take our mind off work, life, home, stress. People also drink alcohol and eat shit food to do the same. I want to make this very clear, doing sport as your distraction is in most cases far healthier than most other options!
But when does it become unhealthy to use sport as a distraction? and in particular endurance sport. I am writing about endurance sport for two reasons, 1) it is what I know and 2) it is probably the sport most abused for distraction.
The benefits to endurance sport are in my eyes, endless. Day to day we (at InnerFight Endurance) use endurance sport to make people better at life. We in still self-belief, we empower, we dig out true potential, we discover grit in all our athletes. They then take those new found traits and go smash life with it, it’s why we have the best job in the world. Like all good things though, these trainable traits can be addictive. How good does it feel to cross that finish line and be the most confident person in the world for a few seconds? It’s epic. But do we get it each time we cross a finish line? No… only when it’s gone really well. The more we race, the more chance we have to go wrong, that is just statistics… but we also have more chance to go right… now we are gambling.
Here are some more stats for you; World gambling statistics show that around 26% of the population gamble. That means around 1.6 billion people worldwide gamble and 4.2 billion people gamble at least once every year. The average US gambler loses $400 every year.
So when we enter event after event after event, or set big goal after big goal after big goal… we are gambling. The reward is self-beleif, empowerment, potential realisation and grit, the punishment is the loss of them all.
So endurance sport should be used wisely, we want to load the odds into our favour. It’s why we have training blocks, coaches to help us and better equipment year on year. So we aren’t like those average US gamblers.
If we just enter things to distract ourselves from life and not pay attention to the odds, you are going to fail at some point. You will get injured or burnt out because you don’t care about the process, you just want the thrill of the gamble…
I’d love to help you figure out your odds.
Monday
There is no in person session this week at LRC. Those who are Unlimited Members, your Training Peaks have been programmed still.
Tuesday
Time: 5:59am
Location: Dubai Sports City Sports Park
Session: Track Tuesday
This is your chance to run fast with the wider IFE community and coaches. This week we will be running 600m repeats. Which will start at 5km pace and progress to 3km pace, so that the pace increases within each rep.
Wednesday
There is no in person session this week at LRC. Those who are Unlimited Members, your Training Peaks have been programmed still.
Friday
Time: 5:59am
Location: Common Grounds
Session: The Coffee Run
This week we will be running a negative split session, meaning that the second half is faster than the first. After 30 mins of easy running, lock into a 20 mins block of effort from 7 - 9 RPE.
Saturday
Time: 5:15am
Location: Cape Town
Session: Two Oceans
Today the 56km runners will be taking on Two Oceans.
Sunday
Time: 6:00am
Location: Cape Town
Session: Two Oceans
Today the 21km runners will be taking on Two Oceans.
Eid Mubarak, we hope you all have a great long weekend! Class times are different this week, so please check the schedule on Mindbody! We have a great week lined up, so see you all on the gym floor!
Monday:
We start the week with an epic partner workout. Grab a partner, and let's start the week with a bang!
Conditioning:
40 min amrap in pairs
50 Cal Row
6 wall walks
50 CB Clean and Jerk
6 Wall Walks
50 Box Jump Overs
6 Wall Walks
Tuesday:
On Tuesday, we have some push-and-pull work in our strength area, focused on overhead pressing, and then 2 12-minute AMRAPs for you to get stuck into.
Strength:
Every 90 sec x 8 Alt between
A: 8 Dual DB Z press
B: 20 Alt Gorilla Rows
Conditioning:
12 min amrap
30 Wall balls
30/25 cal ski
30 Double Unders
Rest 3 Mins
12 min amrap
30/25 Sal Ass bike
20 V Ups
20 Russian KB Swings
Wednesday:
Wednesday, we are hitting some paused back squats in the strength, and then we get after a real grind of a WOD with some burpee pull-ups, front squats, and running.
Strength:
Every 2 mins x 6 - 3/3/2/2/1/1 Tempo Back Squats @21X1
Conditioning:
10 rounds for time
5 Front Squats
Pool Run
5 burpee pull-ups
Thursday:
Thursday, snatch complex with some accessory, followed by the workout ACID BATH.
Strength:
Every 2 mins x 8 - 1 Snatch Pull + 1 hang Power Snatch +
1 Power snatch
rest 3 mins
Every 2 mins x 3 - 5 Snatch Grip Deadlift
Conditioning:
For time
500m ski
500m row
1000m c2 bike
Friday:
FUF - Finishing the week with some push-pull work in the strength, before an all-in barbell workout to end the week! What Better!
Strength:
Every 2 mins x 5 - 5 push press
rest 3 mins
Every 2 mins x 4 complete 6 DB bench Press @ 30x1 + 3-5 strict pull ups
Conditioning:
5 min amrap
9 Deadlift
6 Hang Power Clean
3 STOH
Rest 3 mins x 3
ENGINE
Long EMOM with a mixture of machines and body weight exercises.
GYMNASTICS
This Tuesday, we’re focusing on pull-up progressions! Strict, kipping, and butterfly will appear, followed by lat and core supersets.
On Thursday evening, we’ll focus on handstand hold progressions before having some fun with handstand walks and finishing off the session with core and strength work.
HYROX
This is the Last Simulation before race week. We will lower the volume but keep the intensity high to make sure you are ready for race day!
ENGINE: Long EMOM with a mixture of machines and body weight exercises
MOBILITY
This week, we have the topic: Why are your calves and hamstrings always tight? What can we do to remedy this? Get yourself booked in, and I will show you! This is a great session for everyone, but it is extra beneficial to those runners out there!
PURE STRENGTH
This week's pure strength, we have a chance to progress our 20 RM RDL, followed by some heavy press and strict press cluster sets.
WEIGHTLIFTING
This week in weightlifting, we are focusing on the squat clean. With a fun complex followed by some pulls. Perfect technique session, working on the barbell timing and full depth in the clean
Monday Ride
A ride dedicated to group riding skills and some fitness. Coach Rob Foster leads this ride, if you'd like to join email Rob Foster.
Start time: 05:59 am
Session Length: 1.5 hour
Location: The Loop Cafe, Bike DXB
Track Tuesday
Our weekly on track speed session! For any level of runner looking to build their run speed, threshold and Vo2max fitness and run with the best running community in Dubai.
Time: 05:59 am
Session Length: 1.5 hour
Location: Dubai Sports City Sports Park
Friday - Coffee Run
Our weekly tempo run. Sessions are built on an RPE scale and accessible to all levels of runner. We start together, run hard then finish together and chat about it over a coffee and breakfast.
Brief time: 05:54 am
Start time: 05:59 am
Start Location: Common Grounds
Saturday - Jebel Jais Ride
Today our weekly endurance ride is at Jebel Jais! If you're interested to join email us here.
According to my extremely rough figures after a quick google search. Around 4.41 billion people play sport on planet earth. That is well over half of our 7.67 billion population. Good job earthlings! They say only the 1% of the 1% actually get paid to play sport at the top level (again, these are rough figures). One percent of 4.41 billion is 44,100,000, that is fourty-four milllion, one hundred thousand and 1% of that is 440,000. That still seems like a lot to me but relax for a second.
If you are not one of the 440,000 that gets paid to play sport, you are using sport as a distraction. Definition of distraction, a thing that prevents someone from concentrating on something else. We do hobbies to take our mind off work, life, home, stress. People also drink alcohol and eat shit food to do the same. I want to make this very clear, doing sport as your distraction is in most cases far healthier than most other options!
But when does it become unhealthy to use sport as a distraction? and in particular endurance sport. I am writing about endurance sport for two reasons, 1) it is what I know and 2) it is probably the sport most abused for distraction.
The benefits to endurance sport are in my eyes, endless. Day to day we (at InnerFight Endurance) use endurance sport to make people better at life. We in still self-belief, we empower, we dig out true potential, we discover grit in all our athletes. They then take those new found traits and go smash life with it, it’s why we have the best job in the world. Like all good things though, these trainable traits can be addictive. How good does it feel to cross that finish line and be the most confident person in the world for a few seconds? It’s epic. But do we get it each time we cross a finish line? No… only when it’s gone really well. The more we race, the more chance we have to go wrong, that is just statistics… but we also have more chance to go right… now we are gambling.
Here are some more stats for you; World gambling statistics show that around 26% of the population gamble. That means around 1.6 billion people worldwide gamble and 4.2 billion people gamble at least once every year. The average US gambler loses $400 every year.
So when we enter event after event after event, or set big goal after big goal after big goal… we are gambling. The reward is self-beleif, empowerment, potential realisation and grit, the punishment is the loss of them all.
So endurance sport should be used wisely, we want to load the odds into our favour. It’s why we have training blocks, coaches to help us and better equipment year on year. So we aren’t like those average US gamblers.
If we just enter things to distract ourselves from life and not pay attention to the odds, you are going to fail at some point. You will get injured or burnt out because you don’t care about the process, you just want the thrill of the gamble…
I’d love to help you figure out your odds.
According to my extremely rough figures after a quick google search. Around 4.41 billion people play sport on planet earth. That is well over half of our 7.67 billion population. Good job earthlings! They say only the 1% of the 1% actually get paid to play sport at the top level (again, these are rough figures). One percent of 4.41 billion is 44,100,000, that is fourty-four milllion, one hundred thousand and 1% of that is 440,000. That still seems like a lot to me but relax for a second.
If you are not one of the 440,000 that gets paid to play sport, you are using sport as a distraction. Definition of distraction, a thing that prevents someone from concentrating on something else. We do hobbies to take our mind off work, life, home, stress. People also drink alcohol and eat shit food to do the same. I want to make this very clear, doing sport as your distraction is in most cases far healthier than most other options!
But when does it become unhealthy to use sport as a distraction? and in particular endurance sport. I am writing about endurance sport for two reasons, 1) it is what I know and 2) it is probably the sport most abused for distraction.
The benefits to endurance sport are in my eyes, endless. Day to day we (at InnerFight Endurance) use endurance sport to make people better at life. We in still self-belief, we empower, we dig out true potential, we discover grit in all our athletes. They then take those new found traits and go smash life with it, it’s why we have the best job in the world. Like all good things though, these trainable traits can be addictive. How good does it feel to cross that finish line and be the most confident person in the world for a few seconds? It’s epic. But do we get it each time we cross a finish line? No… only when it’s gone really well. The more we race, the more chance we have to go wrong, that is just statistics… but we also have more chance to go right… now we are gambling.
Here are some more stats for you; World gambling statistics show that around 26% of the population gamble. That means around 1.6 billion people worldwide gamble and 4.2 billion people gamble at least once every year. The average US gambler loses $400 every year.
So when we enter event after event after event, or set big goal after big goal after big goal… we are gambling. The reward is self-beleif, empowerment, potential realisation and grit, the punishment is the loss of them all.
So endurance sport should be used wisely, we want to load the odds into our favour. It’s why we have training blocks, coaches to help us and better equipment year on year. So we aren’t like those average US gamblers.
If we just enter things to distract ourselves from life and not pay attention to the odds, you are going to fail at some point. You will get injured or burnt out because you don’t care about the process, you just want the thrill of the gamble…
I’d love to help you figure out your odds.
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