"Simon Sinek recently published his new book, The Infinite Game.

In finite games, like football or chess, the players are known, the rules are fixed, and the endpoint is clear. The winners and losers are easily identified.

In infinite games, like business or politics or life itself, the players come and go, the rules are changeable, and there is no defined endpoint. There are no winners or losers in an infinite game; there is only ahead and behind.

The more Simon started to understand the difference between finite and infinite games, the more he began to see infinite games all around us.

We see it in the fitness industry all the time.

It's easy to play the finite game with your fitness.
You can do a 30 day “nutrition challenge” or you can load your workouts with a ton of intensity, and train every single day, for hours at a time.

Will you be leaner in 30 day on a challenge, than if you started with a single, sustainable nutritional habit, and executed on it for two weeks?

Most likely....

Would you be fitter with the above approach versus if you spent that time working on your technique and pacing in the gym?
Absolutely....

However, we’re not that concerned with your results in 30 days.

We’re much more interested in 3 months, 6 months, 12 months and beyond.

We prioritise long-term progression over the short-term results whenever possible.

We're looking to teach you about and help you attain fitness for life, not fitness for now.

We play the infinite game.

What does this mean?

To develop more advanced skills in the gym, you often have to spend a long time developing more basic movement patterns, working on your technique, and building up the base necessary to support training.
This may mean you have to sacrifice load lifted, reps achieved and speed of completion, aka perhaps not do as well on the leaderboard sometimes....

Train most of the time – Test occasionally.

Within the fitness community, it’s easy to fall into the habit of viewing each workout as a “test” or a “race.”

While we do value the data that our workouts provide, we want to focus on training most of the time rather than trying to get the best score possible every time we come into the gym.
This means focusing on pacing, technique, and learning, versus getting a workout “Rx’d” or the fastest time for a given day.

There is also the ability to accept plateaus, life events, injuries, and various set backs that will always crop up, when we take a long enough view of the timeline.

We know that it's tough to think long term. We are built to savour the quick and easy victory, but it's always a fleeting moment.

Aim to find the balance between the finite and infinite with your fitness and both your performance and fulfilment will skyrocket."

Darren Ellis, Crossfit New Zealand.

TRAINING NOVEMBER 18th