Imagine you're standing at the top of a hill. At the bottom is the thing you want to do regularly. Running, drinking enough water, going to bed at a sensible time, whatever it is. You really want to get to the bottom of the hill, but there's a problem. The slope is a boulder field, and every time you try to run down, you keep hitting huge boulders and eventually you figure getting down the slope is just too hard and you walk back to the top. The thing never gets done.

Spend any time on running instagram and you’ll come across plenty of content about how consistency is key to becoming a faster, stronger runner.  And it’s true.  Consistency wins over any other training ‘hack’ every single time.  But the problem is that no-one really gets into the nitty gritty of what consistency means, what it realistically looks like and how to achieve it outside of generic tips.  It’s not that that is terrible advice but it’s not the whole story.