Feel Or See, what is better for training?

 Have you ever been training on your stationary bike and your peddling so hard and you're doing such a great job you close your eyes and you just start peddling faster and faster and you think you're at about 20 miles an hour, and you feel so good about yourself, but then when you're open your eyes, you're only going 13 miles an hour.  On the other side of that, have you ever been in the thick of training and you don't think you have one more mile left in you, and you're just about ready to give up, but not quite, and that last smile that you thought you were going to give up on your record, that's the fastest you've ever done your workout. Can play tricks on you going both ways. Sometimes you're sure you're killing it, but then when you look at the speedometer, you realize, you're failing. Sometimes you're exhausted ready to give up, then you get a second win, and you said a record. What call that subjective, which is the way you feel or perceive, and then objective is the actual number on the speedometer, or whatever measuring metric you're using. with your training, do you think all of your workouts should be measured objectively, or do you feel like you could train, and still be in great shape without ever measuring your workouts? Let's talk about this a little deeper.

Here's the short and the long of it. If you do not measure every workout, you have no idea if your progressing, getting better, getting in better shape, getting stronger, for all, you really know, you might be regressing instead of progressing. Your body goes through so many rhythms sometimes you'll be exhausted, going 20 miles an hour, and sometimes 20 miles an hour feels like nothing. You're going the same distance both times, but one feels like you're just about to pass out, and one feels like a stroll in the park and your smiling. So, objective, metric, or measurement system is really the only way to train, or exercise. Is measuring everything and documenting everything the only way?  

First of all, I feel like measuring everything objectively is the only way to test your progress. There Hass to be a metric, whether it's a distance, wait, calories on a rower, miles per hour on a stationary bike the number of push-ups or pull-ups, and a CrossFit workout 100% everything has to be measured, subjectively, but do you have to train that way as well? what is your metric, or way of measuring the effectiveness of a left hook how do you objectively test a takedown, a triangle choke, or the physical ability to come out, stronger in the fifth round than they did in the third round. What are the metrics to measure, figure, skating, gymnastics, singing, or dancing? Isn't that only subjective?  Seems like Combat sports on a subjective judging criteria. While there are some objective rules, and judging criteria, 99% of judging is subjective whether it's figure skating or MMA. 

I think we got off track a little bit, but it's pretty interesting that a combat sport contest or dance contest are many times decided on by pretty much the completely personalized subjective opinion of a person sitting down and watching the contest, we call him a judge. But then there are some sports like running, or swimming or everything is strictly measured and judged, by the length of the pool and the time on the clock. For the most part, you don't even need a human judge there, they are completely decided upon by a machine and a pool. It's kind of weird the way that works but let's get back to our topic.

Here's the answer. Well, the judging of the sport, or fight for that matter is subjective, unless there's a stoppage, so that means it's completely a person's subjective opinion.  Well, a good portion of training for that same combat of sport or figure skating for that matter we'll take a lot of regimented and measured training. During the training is when you have to see the increases in cardiovascular fitness, strength, power, and all of those things can be carefully measured and tracked. Sometimes people want to measure their training by the way they feel, and once in a while, that's fine, but for the majority of our population, I think we both know they would all quit way before their training was beneficial. So I think because our people are weak, both mentally and physically, I think, if working out was left too, their perceived level of work, they would pretty much always fall short of their goals. that's when the measuring metrics come to play. You can fool your brain into thinking you're working at a certain level, but you cannot fool, a measured, mile, or a speedometer. The worst thing is, you cannot fool, a stopwatch, even though you think it should be ringing, it always seems to make you suffer a little longer.

Even though the only way to make real progress is to measure and track your training, that doesn't mean that you have to be about it. When you shadowboxing, hitting the bag, sparring, Grappling, you just have to perceive your exertion, estimate your work, there's no way to measure the effectiveness of a punch and kick, but you can measure a sprint, whether it's on a track, treadmill, versa, climber, rower, or stationary bike. That could all be very closely measured, monitored and tracked.  So I feel the answer is pretty simple, it does take some thinking.

If you are a martial, artist artist, whether you're training to defend your families, life or your training to win the UFC title your conditioning and skill goals should not be that different though your training time and structure will be different. I basically feel like for your training to be effective. You must be consistent with it, for some length of time, so it Hass to be enjoyable, or no one will do it. With that said, it also Hass to be regimented, graded, and measured, or there will be no true progress in your training, and you could be the same for years without making any progress, that's not a good scenario either. I feel like to make it fun you should be creative. You should be able to go freestyle push it hard sometimes, sometimes back off and circle in attack, or whatever you're drilling at that time. Being creative and free on your training is probably requisite for training for any lengthy period of time. In other words, if it's measured, overly structured, and always pushing, people probably will not stick with it very long, either, so it will have no real benefit. For martial arts to be beneficial, There has to be a length of time, say two years, and there has to be consistency, say three times every week, and without both, there will be no real progression as a martial artist. I feel like within the structure of the martial arts Academy there should be Structured belt testing at regular intervals. So I think it's very important to have a good balance of unforgiving and highly structured testing at regular intervals to ensure ongoing progression. But I think there should be freestyle objective creative training to make sure there is ongoing attendance.