Are you 1% better today?

Ben Bergeron owner and head coach of Crossfit New England talks all the time about increasing performance. I read a while back about what he had his athletes do. It had always stuck with me and I think about it daily. I am going to paraphrase what I took from him.

When you go to train you don't ALWAYS have to PR or train to exhaustion. You need to think about becoming 1% better than you were from yesterday. It could be in technique, amount of weight you used, learned or performed a new skill better, it could be that today was a rest day and you rested! You could have ate clean all day, helped a neighbor shovel their walk. It could be as simple as having positive self talk when your wod got hard. 

If you improve 1% every day for 100 days, guess what??? You just improved 100%!!

Try it. It really does work!!