Consistency isn't Enough
Consistency is easy. It doesn’t require much skill, albeit some, which is why most coaches say if you keep showing up you will get better.
While it’s not a lie, it’s only half true.
Consistency will fail because it lacks a stimulus to adapt. Eventually practice becomes permanent and body learning becomes body control.
Consistency will get you far. Progress will take you further.
For example, squats are great but after a while the body won’t have much need to change. The same 20, are the same 20 and it’s no longer challenging.
Consistency established the behavior. Progress requires upgrading it.
How do you progress your consistency?
It’s easy to mistake going harder, faster and heavier every week in the gym as a solution.
Progress is not synonymous with increase.
Progress sometimes looks like:
Improving form via tempo (lifting technique).
Changing exercise selection (squat to lunge)
Periodization (decreasing or increasing).
Observing feedback and making rational changes.
Updating recovery protocols.
As you can see it’s more than just hammering the body with heavier weights and more repetitions. It’s also about using the mind as a muscle.
It’s easy being hard. It’s hard being smart.
Josh,
The Body Is Primary.