I was recently having a conversation with one of THE PIT and Queenslands best Cricket Players Bryce Carseldine about self inflicted PAIN….not the pain of injury, but the good PAIN that is a byproduct of a challenging training session.
Bryce is a great guy to chat with about this as he literally tears it apart every time he trains. He is machine. Anyone that has seen him train will attest to that. They have seen him dominate the Tredsled, Complexes or Strongman Circuit and he’s a cricketer.
Here’s what he had to say, “Why are you about to stop an exercise or drill because there is a little bit of pain or you’re getting tired”? Why do you still have room in the tank when you stop?
Far too many athletes stop when the going gets tough. They give up when the drill gets a little bit hard or they tire!
Why do you give up?
In finals, often, the last 5 minutes of a game determines the winner of the game, the last 5 minutes is where the great players shine because their tank is bigger then the average players.
Who are the great players?
Great players don’t stop a drill cause they’re getting tired. They push through the pain barrier to get better. To go further in their sport than the average. To enlarge their tank.
The reason the great players push through the pain barrier is to be able to dominate the last 5 minutes. Enlarging your tank is done by pushing through the pain barrier in the exercises at training. There is no forward progression if you’re not pushing the pain barrier!
The average stop because they’re in pain!
No pain, no gain right!
So why stop?
Why do you stop when you have plenty of room in the tank?
If you truly want to be a great athlete you need to push beyond your pain barrier and outwork the pain barriers of others.
Why stop?
I couldn’t agree more with Bryce’s thought process.
Training hard and smart and allowing your body the necessary time to recover is a sure fire recipe for success!
All the best,
Joey Hayes
