Boogie Woogie India

Many times it so happens that when we practice, sometimes we get tired. But as they say practice makes a person perfect and so we must go on but then we find ourselves in a situation where we feel tired and exhausted. We feel there is still a long way to reach the spot where we can say “Yes we are ready to give a flawless performance” and feel the need to train ourselves more and more. At times mentally we are ready but then sometimes our body gives up. We feel we cannot handle it anymore. What should be done at this point? Is it a good idea to carry on even when you are tired? Will that do good or bad to your performance? Well as we talk the positives and negatives of training under such circumstances let us figure out the basics first.

Getting tired after a rigorous training is normal and at this point if you push yourself much harder then your body might give up on you but if you feel tired at the beginning of your training then you need to analyze what is wrong. Is the practice from previous day making you feel tired or are you falling sick? If the previous is not the case then you must consult a doctor as soon as possible as it is not right to take chances just before your performance. It is better to take precautions and be safe then feeling sorry later on.

But if you’re hard practice has made you all worked up and tired and your body needs rest then I will say – Rest if you must but don’t you quit!! Get yourself a big glass of fresh juice and if there is no fresh fruits available go for a lemon juice. It will rejuvenate you. Take a little time to yourself to relax while sipping to your favorite lemonade and once you feel all relaxed, jump on to the dancing floor to burn your energies out.

Okay, what do you think – is it right to go on training when you are tired? Although there are several arguments that people feel regarding training while tired let’s look at some of the positives first:

• They say if we are serious in our work and want to be perfect then tired not tired does not matter. Our body gets immune to rigorous work out as we push ourselves. And the most important thing is that it makes a good foundation for us to survive in the long grueling competitions that we will be part of. We need to have done enough physical conditioning to be fit enough to get through the competition. And also they say if we stop training every time we start to get tired, we are unlikely to have done enough work to get through a serious of tough practices for us to survive.
• If we can successfully continue our training when we are tired, we will be getting valuable practice at maintaining our concentration and technique when fatigued. It definitely will be much easier to find ourselves to perform successfully when we are all fresh. They say right – “if you can succeed in bad times then you can RULE in good times.”
• Sometimes we don’t have enough time on hand to practice as the performance or the audition is getting close so we will have to work with whatever the little time that we got. To keep up with our other commitments and also to practice, we will have to work double the hours when the time is available and at this point tired or not tired, we will just have to cope up with it.
• We tend to get into a habit of stopping every time we feel tired. We a lot of times never start after we stop for either a longer period of time or just forget about it. It creates a mental block that we set for ourselves to stop practicing as soon as we feel a bit of fatigue is setting in. That is really bad and we are not creating good examples nor we fit ourselves in the category of best practices to survive a competition. Although we don’t want to over train ourselves but we surely need to familiarize ourselves with what it is like to play when we are tired and prove to ourselves that Yes we can do it! And think about this, sooner or later we are going to find ourselves in a competition of the fittest where we might feel weary before we even start. So train yourself better.
• Sometimes even though we may be already tired, we may need to go to training anyway because we won’t have another training session available for a while. So as they say make hay while the sun shines, we must train ourselves and utilize the opportunity of time and resources that we may have on hand. But on days like this you can always focus on exercises that are less physically demanding and work on fine tuning of your techniques.

Now let’s talk about some of the negatives of training while tried. Even though we talked about all the good reasons to continue practices when tired above but it doesn’t mean that it does not have any drawbacks. If we are really feeling fatigued, and decide on continuing training then there might be circumstances like below:

• Let me give you an example – take a rubber band and try pulling it from both the ends. If you keep pulling it what happens? Yes you are right – it will break. So the same way we will increase the chances of injuring ourselves when we continue to practices and plus when we are dragging ourselves out, we tend to get sloppier and worn ourselves out which turns out to be even worse.
• As we get tired, our mind looks out for check out. We need to be mentally alert for every move that we make as one small mistake can ruin our balance and performance. Also when we are not mentally alert, we tend to learn the wrong steps. Our understanding power is actually working to its minimal which is not right. What is the use of tiring ourselves while training but learning and understanding it all wrong? It is not only waste of time and energy but also harmful for your performance. I would say if you can afford it, you are better off calling it a day.

So as every step has its own pros and cons so does the training cycle while feeling tired too. It is up to us to analyze to see how tired or fatigued we are and if continuing at this point will be a benefit or will ruin our chances further. It is always better to be safe then sorry but what ever you may decide, decide it with due respect and be willing to take the responsibility of your actions. Take control of yourself.