Cross Training Questions
How do I get people to take me seriously?
I am in Tae Kwon Do. I have been enduring hardcore training for about four months now to try and make it to Nationals. Nationals is the highest level of competition for my age (16 yrs. old.) Anyhow, we cross train with another instructor sometimes, and it's like he thinks I have never worked out before...He doesn't even think I train as hard as I do...I train seven days a week about three or four hours a day. Sometimes when we finish a really easy workout like running a few miles or something, he says, "I thought you were going to die after this workout," or "Man, your going to be hurting tomorrow..." The amount of cardio training I do is insane... It takes a lot to make me tired or my muscles to be sore the next day...I just don't understand why I'm not being taken seriously. I really am serious about making it to Nationals and I am trying my very best to train hard everyday. Of course, my own coach thinks that I will make it there, but why doesn't the coach that we cross train w/ do?
Public Comments
- It is a mental thing. If you can over come the mental challenges of him telling you cant make it then you will make it. Winning is all in the mind. Have you read the book " The Art of War" You must get into the mind of your opponent. That is what the other instructor is trying to teach you.
- you can always affirm "I know who i am, and i know what i do!!" eventually you will start to realise its not worth explaining yourself to other people, in the end if you truly believe you can succeed and it wouldnt matter if you didnt, you can make him look silly, because you are focused on what you do and not what he thinks.
- He is just making assumptions based on his pre-conceived notion. Respect is gained through action and not words. All you can do is continue to train and not care what others say. Their proof will come from your accomplishment, not from anything you can say to them. It's true, he may just do that to push you to train even harder in order to prove yourself. I guess it's a valid technique to push high performing people into even higher performance.
