Why do you swim or do triathlon? What makes you push yourself so hard every day for so many hours each week?
The person reading this article almost certainly is not a professional athlete. And the number of non-professional athletes reading this article is extremely high (including yourself, I assume). So ask yourself this question: why do you swim or do triathlon? What makes you push yourself so hard every day for so many hours each week?
If you are a professional it is easier to find the motivation to train: there is a real return in terms of money, results and visibility. Or at least that is how it should be. But if, as I imagine is the case, most sports people are not professionals, finding the motivation to train is a key factor.
Whether you like it or not, you will almost certainly not become rich or famous and you could probably never aspire to take part in the Olympics. But that does not mean that the goals you set yourself are less important or less significant, it just means your will power must be even stronger than all those annoying things that interfere with your performance.
There is a tendency to think that doing really well at sport is simply a question of natural talent, which, by definition, is innate and therefore untrainable. But…
