Motivation...or lack thereof.

Training to climb 3 mountains isn't easy.  It's even harder if you have trouble motivating yourself to kick your own butt (me!).  A few days ago, I got to attend a soccer practice session run by Wake Forest Men's Soccer coach Jay Vidovich.

Coach Vidovich

He's amazing at what he does, the intensity and effort he demands from his players is so high.  He has so much energy while coaching, and so much knowledge about the game.  At the end of the session during our Q & A, he gave us a quote that is so simple, but makes a ton of sense.

"The only discipline that lasts is self-discipline." -Bum Phillips 

Makes loads of sense.  In my profession as a soccer coach, I can have players motivated at practice and at games, but if they aren't putting in their best effort all the time, even when working with the ball at home, they'll never reach their full potential.  The discipline to work hard and push yourself is something you have to practice to be good at it.  You gotta want it!

Now that I have outgrown the "team" environment for workouts (I never thought I would miss having a coach yell at me), my own self-discipline is now more important than ever.  This has become glaringly apparent in my 3 Peaks training.  I'll have a great week of running, spin class, and some lifting, then the next week do next to nothing.  I'm going to try and break that terrible cycle by holding myself more accountable, and actually WRITING DOWN a schedule, instead of just moving things around, or pushing workouts back, and back, and back....

Discipline. Let's do this.