Inspiration.

Recently, up until about November 2008, i had a real lack of motivation and inspiration.

Even watching my favourite YouTube videos wouldn't motivate me.

It got to the point where i was lucky if i trained for more than half an hour a week, i just couldn't find it in me.

Everyone in the scene here in Clydebank had completely slacked off, with the exception of one or two people, most people would 'train' for 10 minutes then go to the nearest McDonalds, and for me to be able to train during this period just did not work.

Coming out of a phase like this is a very hard thing to do, and allthough i am out of it now, and completely fine, i thought i'd post this for any of you who might be reading this that are experiencing this at the moment.

Key things to remember when your in this situation are that if you were to look into the future, maybe 3 months away, you would see yourself training fine, over this phase, think of that and push yourself to start, if you can vision yourself training a while away, and being good, achieving your goals and doing what you set out to do, you should have a lot less of a problem getting out and starting again.

Another thing to remember is how this phase will affect your overall training, i personally ate a lot, lost a lot of strength and an unbelievable amount of cardio respiratory fitness, all in the space of maybe 2 months.

Don't let this happen to you.

Constantly tell yourself how far you've came with your training so far, and employ scare tactics on yourself, constantly remind yourself on how much your overall training will be affected by this, and push to train.

YouTube videos - there's so many inspirational videos out there now, and it doesn't have to be Parkour/Freerunning, it can be anything that inspires you.

Here's a personal list of videos that have helped me through rough times;

• Chase Armitage - Free Inspiration
• Sam Parham - Poetry In Motion
• Blane - Origins
• Livewire Training 08
• Al Pacino's Inspirational Speech

I hope this post has helped you if you are going through this phase,

Never let anything hold you back from your passion and do what makes you happy,

Ian.