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A Balancing Act
by Matthew Carmona // Rhone.com
For working professionals, making meaningful progress against our training goals can often feel like a futile exercise. Pressing deadlines, cross-country travel, and after-work socializing can upend our training regimens. Further, the creep of “always-on” workplace culture and pressures to outperform the previous quarter reinforce the idea that we must constantly subordinate personal goals to professional obligations. Absent an active intervention, these schedules can make us feel powerless to adhere to any training program.
Yet, by proactively managing our schedules — particularly our training schedules — we can reduce the incidence of these zero-sum, professional-physical tradeoffs. Proactive management means using our discretion (i.e., when we train, where we train, and how we train) to create conditions that increase the likelihood of overall training adherence. Given the primacy of consistency in the training echelon, such efforts can help us realize step-change improvements in our physical development and performance.
So how do we translate this theory into reality?
