Failure to Plan, is a Plan for Failure

By petar at May 9, 2011 | 2:22 pm | Print

This person clearly failed to plan what would happen if someone decided to lift his or her bike up. Thus, this person has planned to fail.

Hey guys, Mike again. I thought I’d talk to you about planning today, and how that affects your workouts, your goals, and your life.

My coach in high school always used to say, “If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.” As someone who has copious experience just winging it, I will tell you that while this is MUCH easier, more often than not, you don’t do nearly as well as you could have if you plan it out.

As far as RowZone, you can plan when you want to come in, you can plan how you are going to do your race pieces, and you can plan that if you go to one of Petar’s classes, if you’re SUPER sore, Petar will make you more sore . As far as your schedule, I can’t tell you how to plan that, because this is a blog and that would be oddly personal of me to single any one of you out. However, I CAN ask (politely, if you please) each and every one of you to come visit me every day! For your pieces, those of you who have had me teach your classes know that I like to try having you guys create a race plan, for how you want to attack every piece.

That carries over into other aspects of your life. Whether your goal is to drop weight for bikini season (I’m trying to get in great shape for my bikini), get stronger, put on muscle, or even just to make sure you’re doing your part to live a long and healthy life, having a plan helps to focus you, and put you on the right track. “But Mike! If it’s that easy, why doesn’t everyone do it?” Well, to quote Mike Tyson, [imagine a squeakier voice with a lisp] “Everybody has a plan ‘til they get punched in the mouth.” As soon as something goes wrong, people tend to abandon their plan as hopeless. Missing a week or two because you’re sick, binging on candy, food, and/or beer (I do this all the time – not just the beer, guys, have a little faith ), or getting an injury are all merely obstacles on your path to your goal.

 

The next step is to share your plan and your goals with as many people as possible to help hold you accountable for it. Of course, everyone will be understanding if you don’t meet your goal, but you might feel a little abashed (that’s an SAT word) if it’s because you didn’t try hard enough. After that its merely implementing your plan to achieve your goals, while this is obviously easier said than done, you do have the entire RowZone community (both trainers and your fellow workout enthusiasts) to help support you to reach your goals.

So get out there and start planning!

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