最近，我在一个健身房遇到了一个男人，在那里我咨询了一辆Apple Watch和basis Watch，两位重型跟踪器。他还使用MyFitnessPal，睡眠，WiFi量表的体重以及其他许多东西都在不同的平台上追踪了自己的食物。经过一年的所有数据，他朝着目标的进步放慢了爬行。您可能会认为他会比以往任何时候都做得更好，但是他无法在所有不同数据集和应用程序的疯狂网络中震惊，以找到成功的目标。
在健康和健身之旅开始时，进展相对容易。初学者只需要指向正确的方向，并保持一致和“事情发生”。但是，当您不再是初学者时，事情会变得更加棘手。当您达到第一个高原（真正的迹象，您不再是初学者），突然间，您在健身房实际做什么。从这里开始，您将不得不实际考虑最佳，以及如何避免伤害潜在的进步。
数据和目标对于优化至关重要，但是就像绅士相比，与航天飞机更多的数据跟踪一样，他们可能会阻止您。这是您可能损害健康目标的三种意外方法。
1. Data Is not Wisdom
In 1989, Russel Ackoff gave a speech to International Society for General Systems Research in which he coined the “Knowledge Pyramid.”
Tracking everything doesn’t lead to insights. Knowledge and expertise does. That’s why even the best athletes have coaches and usually lots of them. Experts are people you pay to help you interpret the data and help you find one path among many. Devices available today aren’t substitutes for these experts; they aren’t able to extract insights from your data to help to make these decisions. No longer being a beginner means you’re going to have to manage lots of potential options, some of which you might not even know are out there. And as Russell Ackoff noted in 2002, data can actually confuse people even more. “[People] who don’t know how to measure what they want settle for wanting what they can measure.” And getting clear on what your goals are, is the first step to utilizing that data and expertise.
2. Fitness Is not Health
My mentor Dan John likes to remind just about anyone who’ll listen that, “fitness and health are not the same thing.” Fitness is the ability to do a task. Health is fuzzier. I ran a sub-3hr marathon, but I almost severed both my achilles tendons, kept getting infections, and had exactly zero libido for almost 3 months leading up to it. I was unhealthy. The World Health Organization calls health, “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.” Put another way, health is waking up with pretty much the same chance of dropping dead as yesterday.
The reason I bring this up is that many people get hung up on metrics thinking they’re health. But most metrics measure “fitness” for tasks. And being fit for many tasks could require a temporary sacrifice of your health. Like marathon running. And that’s not bad, it just is. So ask yourself, “Do I have health goals … or fitness goals?”
3. “Goal” Trumps “Goals”
最后，伤害目标的最简单方法之一就是拥有多个。实际上，我打电话给试图一次实现更多的结果目标，即“中间错误”。初学者通常只想变得更好。在任何事情上。高级运动员的水晶清晰度确切知道他们想要什么。“中间错误”不是对您想要什么并立即追求这一切的明确了解。
You can’t run 6 days a week and CrossFit 6 days a week and hope to get better at either of them very efficiently. It’s great to have multiple interests and variety in your training, but as you get better, you’ll have to choose where you spend your energy and time because you have to manage recovery. I’m not saying you have to specialize in one sport, but prioritizing one goal to do first is the hallmark of clarity.
我与客户一起使用的工具称为“ 5-3-1st”，非常简单。
- List your top 5 health and fitness goals.
- Of those, what are your top 3?
- Of those, what is the first goal you would like to achieve?
If you take the time to prioritize the order in which you would like to achieve your goals, you will save a lot of time and energy that you might have wasted trying to run in two directions at once.
