Following an Organic Training Plan

Something that is organic is something that grows, that changes and adapts as it learns and grows. 

An organic training plan is one that respects both the laws of physics and physiology, and your own unique person and conditions. It changes and grows with you as you change and grow. As you learn and gain new perspective the training plan changes to reflect that.

You may start with a fully designed and scheduled training plan. But then you would allow it to be flexible with changed in your body, changes in your perspective, changes in your life. The plan would serve your life as it unfolds rather than control it.

Having a well-designed and scheduled plan is easier to modify than having to create structure for yourself each day because there is no plan at all. Knowing the principles behind that plan allow you to modify it in a responsible way, as your needs and perspective change. 

If you have some solid principles to guide you, a specific skill goal in mind, and a thoughtful path to get there, then you don’t have to live by rigid training rules and oppressive daily discipline to keep progressing. When you internalize the training principles and have things organized in your mind then you are more free to follow an organic path to training.

Organic does not mean ‘no plan’ – it means, having principles in place so that you can be carefully flexible with your plan and still have a good chance of reaching your goal.

This is an art as much as a science and it takes time to get the hang of it.