Kaizen

Kaizen is a method of industrial quality control that stresses continuous incremental improvements. The word originates from the Japanese words ‘Kai’ meaning continuous and ‘zen’ meaning improvement. Kaizen has connotations of continuous, gradual, orderly and never-ending improvement, the willingness to constantly, relentlessly pursue improvement a small step at a time.

That is how triathlon training is. Small continuous incremental improvements that come from persistence in training.

I sometimes get frustrated and feel like such a slowpoke. I know that I am improving little by little, so now I just say Kaizen inside my head when I’m feeling badly about my progress.