Finlay MacHugh

You have no idea whether an exercise is ‘specific’ if

You don’t know your strengths.

You don’t know your weaknesses.

You don’t know what event you’re running.

You don’t know where you are in the training cycle.

You’re taking coaching advice from someone whose entire coaching experience is based on a single training method.

Long-term results are like a stacked bar chart.

You layer them on stage by stage through structure and support.

I can’t support you (unless you join Evergreen), but I can show the structure for long-term progress.

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You want to feel ready.

You want to KNOW that you’ll perform.

But that’s not how you get good at a sport.

and it’s not how you improved at sports when you were younger.

You train, compete, learn from it, and you train more.

Look, although I’m not training for an endurance event right now, the process of challenging yourself, training and achieving something you’re proud of is the same no matter what sport you’re doing.

The motivation will come when you commit.

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P.S. The competition I want to enter is actually quite simple - The Glasgow Hyrox. Whats yours?

That first burst of motivation is the most dangerous point in any training block.

You’ve had an event in the back of your head for months. You finally commit. You sign up.

And immediately you feel brilliant. No accumulated fatigue. The old niggles are quiet and you’ve got energy you haven’t felt in weeks.

So you train like it.

Six sessions in a week. Smash the long run.

And six weeks later, when the training actually needs to count, you’re running on empty.

Overloaded. Under-prepared.

Carrying fatigue you built in the weeks you didn’t need to.

This is why the structure of your early training block dictates everything that comes after it.

Across all Evergreen Athlete programmes, we use five principles to protect athletes from themselves in those first weeks.

It’s to be genuinely prepared when it matters.

Save this if you’ve got an event coming up.

That first burst of motivation is the most dangerous point in any training block.

You’ve had an event in the back of your head for months. You finally commit. You sign up.

And immediately you feel brilliant. No accumulated fatigue.

The old niggles are quiet and you’ve got energy you haven’t felt in weeks.

So you train like it.

Six sessions in a week. Smash the long run.

And six weeks later, when the training actually needs to count, you’re exhuasted.

Overloaded. Under-prepared.

Carrying fatigue you built in the weeks you didn’t need to.

This is why the structure of your early training block dictates everything that comes after it.

Across all Evergreen Athlete programmes, we use five principles to protect athletes from themselves in those first weeks.

It’s to be genuinely prepared when it matters.

Save this if you’ve got an event coming up.