Over the past few weeks I have been trying to send out weekly emails regarding training. While these emails began as 'threshold Thursdays', last week we focused on meditation. When I began sending these, I was sending them only to the summer training group and I have since realized that this was silly and that I should SPAM the entire team. So, if you missed some of the earlier messages please know that you can find them on our AWESOME new blog.
On Wednesday, Christi and I met with a reporter from UWYO Magazine (watch for the story to come) and we found ourselves repeatedly returning to the holistic nature of our team. We kept reiterating that our athletes are 'superheroes' in all arenas: academic and athletic. This is a nice segue into this week's training topic: marginal gains. That is, in a February 2014 blog by a man named James Clear, the subject of improving everything by a tiny percent is broached. [*Disclaimer - yes, this is a .com site and we can assess this article for commercial interests whenever any of you have sexy minded urge to do so. However, I like what he is saying.]blog.bufferapp.com/what-would-happen-if-you-improved-everything-by-1-the-science-of-marginal-gains
Clear simply argues that if we break our sport down into every little aspect: nutrition, sleep, pole weight, ski quality, training quality, quality of massage oil (my favorite), fitness level .... and we try to improve each one of these by 1% than eventually the 1%s start to add up to give something big (i.e. lots of little 1%s = winning:)
I actually think that this is something that our team is really good at but I am super stoked to take this lovely friday to overtly call your attention to the benefits of lots of little percents!
On Wednesday, Christi and I met with a reporter from UWYO Magazine (watch for the story to come) and we found ourselves repeatedly returning to the holistic nature of our team. We kept reiterating that our athletes are 'superheroes' in all arenas: academic and athletic. This is a nice segue into this week's training topic: marginal gains. That is, in a February 2014 blog by a man named James Clear, the subject of improving everything by a tiny percent is broached. [*Disclaimer - yes, this is a .com site and we can assess this article for commercial interests whenever any of you have sexy minded urge to do so. However, I like what he is saying.]blog.bufferapp.com/what-would-happen-if-you-improved-everything-by-1-the-science-of-marginal-gains
Clear simply argues that if we break our sport down into every little aspect: nutrition, sleep, pole weight, ski quality, training quality, quality of massage oil (my favorite), fitness level .... and we try to improve each one of these by 1% than eventually the 1%s start to add up to give something big (i.e. lots of little 1%s = winning:)
I actually think that this is something that our team is really good at but I am super stoked to take this lovely friday to overtly call your attention to the benefits of lots of little percents!
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