You shouldn't love all of your training

You shouldn't love all of your training. Let me explain what I mean here. You can most definitely enjoy your training sessions and practices or be in love with the process and grind of working to get better. However, if you're loving every second of it, you probably aren't doing what you truly need to in order to get better.

There should be some aspects of your training or practice that you don't enjoy. Maybe you despise those aspects of it, but you push yourself to do them anyway because you know its going to make you better. 

That's what being an athlete and competitor is all about:
Pushing yourself to do things you don't want to, but you know you have to if you want to be the best you can be.

Your mind is a tricky thing and is going to subconsciously tell you that your tired when in all actuality you can go way longer. It's going to start sending signals to quit because it wants to protect you, but sometimes that extra push is what's needed to get better and make gains. Your mind also wants to protect your ego. It doesn't want you to do something you aren't going to be good at or are going to fail at. It doesn't want you to look bad.

You need to outsmart your brain in order to be the best you can be.

Your brain is going to talk you into doing the same things over and over again in training because its easy. You don't have to think too much or work too hard at those things. You're also good at those things so there's a low risk for failure.

It's a win-win for the 'ol brain, but a loss for you and your potential.

Here's a quick visualization for you to help you understand:

Imagine you're a basketball player reviewing film of your last game.

What do you notice?

You probably notice that you do the same two or three moves. Why? That's because those moves are easy, you're good at them, and you can do them without thinking or putting forth too much extra effort.

The problem with that is your opponent, who is watching the same film, sees the same things you do. They know exactly how to shut you down next game and their coach is probably saying, "That guy only has 2-3 moves. If we can stop those, he will be a non-factor."

You can continue to perfect those 2-3 moves and maybe you can even be better than anyone in the world at those moves which is awesome, but guess what.

Your opponent is ready and knows what moves are coming. Even though you're the best at those moves, the chances of you beating them with them are slim because they know what's coming.

Now, imagine what would happen if you learned a couple new moves. First, you're going to suck at them and you'll probably get frustrated when you try to use them because they're new, you feel awkward, and you may even turn the ball over a few times doing them. These new moves don't come easy.

This is where your mind is going to say, "hey, don't worry about those new moves. We suck at those and aren't going to get better at them. We have these we are already awesome at. Let's stick with them."

If you can't outsmart your brain in a situation like that then your progress is going to slow or stop. Your brain and body don't enjoy being challenged. They want to do things as easily and efficiently as possible to maintain their natural balance otherwise known as homeostasis. 

If you want to keep getting better, you have to learn to push yourself to do things you aren't good at, things you don't enjoy, things that are hard for you. 

That's where the progress and gains are going to be made. Not doing the same thing that you love over and over 1000 times because your brain and body are subconsciously telling you that you don't want a challenge. 

Doing new exercises or drills sucks, learning a new move sucks, trying out a new training program sucks, but at the end of the day its going to make you better. 

Learn to embrace what sucks because that's what's going to make you better!