LOOKING at world events from wars to famine to the advances in technology, the only constant is that everything is in flux. Although names and places vary, history is always being made in an ever-rolling wave of change. Sports are no different. Over the years, we have watched it grow from little more than a sideshow attraction to a main event.

With the growth of sports popularity, it has come to athletes that new policy, rules and regulations etc. to get him/her into the pro ranks.

Likewise, our collective knowledge of training and nutrition has grown by leaps and bounds since the past eras of sports.

In nutrition alone, carbohydrates go in and out of fashion more times than we can count, and we have seen exercises and training methods change. Yet for all these change viewed in a larger frame of reference there is still a distinct lack of it.

Because athletes coming as close as possible to reaching a physical ideal, have educated themselves in the ways of the sport and have worked assiduously toward doing so. They have followed a set of rules that consistently proved to be the key for excelling in a sport.

Today’s technology of identifying and codifying training methods for athletes have worked effectively, because scientific data’s now support all of them, from training to nutrition, injuries and recovery, sports principles etc.

The point on consistency is to impress upon athletes its importance in their own physical wellbeing. Of course, every athlete wants to try something new from vitamins and supplements as they come to market, or experiment with new machines that make their way onto the gym floor, variety is, after all, the spice of life, so they say.

But as always, consistency will give the best results every athlete wants in the end because the same principles of training that have been used in the past will work for the athlete today and the future, simply because, athletes have to keep applying them on a regular basis.

Don’t think that going to training in one day, then not making time to train in three days or so will get you to your goals.