When we train or exercise by ourselves there is often the tendency or temptation to cut a few corners or not train with the intensity that will give me the best results for effort.

Today rather than going for a run early in the morning I took my son with me to exercise at the local athletics track late this afternoon. There were 8 younger, more athletic and more talented athletes there finishing the final stages of their training. Not wanting to make a fool of myself amongst these athletes and coaches i decided to use their presence to my advantage.

With others watching on i found myself running with a good technique and i managed to maintain a running pace and intensity that gave me a real high and a sense of achievement.
As i drove back i remembered a hilarious and novel way in which one woman also used others around her to keep her motivated during her exercise. Every morning she would run along the main road wearing a shirt that read, “Honk, if I stop running.” Now that’s motivation.