Sometimes as coaches we can unintentionally create a form of “white coat syndrome.”
People tell us their goals, what they’re eating, or how training is going… but sometimes it’s what they think we want to hear, or what they think is the right answer.
But the reality is, life and training don’t always work like that.
Sometimes you won’t actually have a goal or be working towards anything specific and that’s okay.
Sometimes training is going really well but nutrition is a bit all over the place because life gets in the way and that’s okay too.
Sometimes you’ve just finished something you were training for whether it’s a holiday, a half marathon or a Hyrox. It’s normal after a big event that motivation dips a little. Training becomes more about ticking the boxes for a while.
And that’s okay.
You don’t always need to be training for something or have a big deep goal.
In fact, those periods between goals are often the most important ones, because they stop you going back to zero every time.
We’ve all seen people do this with things like holiday diets, they go all in for a few weeks, then completely fall off afterwards.
The real win is building the kind of routine that keeps you moving forward even when there isn’t a big goal on the horizon.
