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Craig Pickering

Consistency versus excellence

February 7, 2020/by Craig Pickering

During my athletics career, I trained with two truly world-class athletes: one a gold medalist and the other a world champion. What struck me at the time was how normal they were; they turned up to training, trained fairly well, and then came back the next day to repeat the process. There were no superhuman sessions—although there were occasional exceptional performances—but just consistently decent sessions, strung together over an extended period of time.


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Craig Pickering is the Director of Performance Sustainability for Athletics Australia. He combines his sports science background and experience as a world-class sprinter and bobsledder to help athletes in all sports.

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