All You Need To Succeed in Training

In today’s world of social media, podcasts, YouTube, and endless online resources, we have more access to expert advice, training methods, and motivational content than ever before. Every platform claims to be the place. Every brand swears that their environment, their team, and their system is the one thing you need to succeed.

It’s easy to get caught up in that noise. To think you need the best gym, the most renowned competitors to train with, the fanciest recovery tools, elite-level coaches, sponsorships, and the list goes on. The “If I had this…” or “If I could just…” mindset starts to creep in. You begin believing success is out of reach unless you’re in the perfect environment with all the right people.

But here’s the truth: it’s not that complicated.

In my opinion, you only need five things to chase your goals:

1. The Vision: A clear idea of what you want and why you want it.
   
   
2. The Belief: True self-belief. Not the surface-level kind, but the kind that keeps you going when no one else understands the path you're on.
   
   
3. The Discipline: The ability to SHOW UP, day after day, no matter how you feel.
   
   
4. The Patience: The understanding that nothing great happens overnight—and that there’s no set timeline for achieving your goal. It takes what it takes. Some paths are longer than others, and you have to be okay with that.
   
   
5. Three Solid People: A small circle who genuinely support and believe in you. And just as importantly, you need to believe in them. You need to trust them. It’s a mutual relationship. When belief flows both ways, that’s when the support truly becomes powerful.
   
   

That’s it. The rest? Icing on the cake.

You don’t need to train at the most hyped gym just because they have top-tier athletes. Training with five “fire-breathers” doesn’t automatically make you the sixth. It could help, or it could break you. It’s a coin flip.

Here’s the thing: relying on others to lift you up can be dangerous if you haven’t built belief in yourself first. Sometimes, being part of a group can become a ceiling instead of a launchpad. Sure, they say “if you want to run fast, run with fast people”, but what if your running group is actually holding you back, and you don’t even realize it?

Don’t settle for comfort

The comfort of keeping pace with others might stop you from pushing your limits. You might start settling for “that was fast enough,” instead of discovering how fast you could go on your own. The quiet work done in isolation, without comparison or ego, can often lead to the greatest adaptations. That fear of the unknown pace? That’s often where growth lives.

So before chasing external validation, make sure you’ve locked in the essentials. Because no environment, no group, no gym can replace what happens when you have vision, belief, discipline, patience, and just a few real ones by your side.

Let me finish with this. I am not saying training camps and world-class training partners are bad. I am just trying to emphasise how important the internal part of achieving your goals is. 

Everything else is an added bonus. 

You hold the key to your fate. You are the magic.