Comments on: Efficient Blogging – Lessons from Elite Athletes

By: Leon

Leon — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 19:57:05 +0000

Amazing how you can relate blogging to athletics. We Jamaicans are very proud of Asafa. There's a post on my blog about Melbourne 2006 for those who wish to read.

By: Coop

Coop — Wed, 22 Mar 2006 04:24:14 +0000

Hi Darren,
Having been a personal trainer for over 12 years now, I am still fascinated when top level athletes “show their stuff”. What you and I see are the cream of the crop, and their training has progressed to a point where they are now “peaking” for this event. They have spent years “tweaking” with their training, diets, recovery, and possibly supplements. Experience has paid off.

So how does this relate to you? You have spent hours modifying your sites, “tweaking” and “testing”. You have learned what works and what doesn’t, plus you continue to learn like the athlete trains.

If I could blog as well as I train…I’d be a champion money maker.

Take care…and go exercise!

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 12:33:12 +0000

off topic, I’ve been watching a lot of the commonwealth games from the comfort of my sofa over the last week (combination of the time of day its broadcast here in the UK and the fact that I’ve been unwell) but I’ve not managed to spot you in the audience yet! :D

Glad to hear you’ve been able to get along to some of the events, my wife and I tried to get tickets 4 years ago when the event was held in Manchester, but only got tickets for the opening ceremony. It was something of a lucky dip as to how the tickets were distributed across all those that wanted to attend.

Nice post btw, you are the master at being able to go off on tangents and then pull it back into focus.

Cheers

By: Declan

Declan — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 04:10:32 +0000

Thanks for that Darren.

Looking forward to his next post along the lines of what you have alluded to. I seriously need a ‘personal trainer’ to whip my blog into shape.

By: Darren Rowse

Darren Rowse — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 02:05:34 +0000

Declan - he's done one post per week since I announced it - that's the level we're starting him off on. He's set this week's post to go live on the site this Wednesday. His posts are here and here

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Tue, 21 Mar 2006 01:49:58 +0000

[...] For those of you that run, or those of you that blog, or those of you that run and blog, Darren over at Problogger had a post with a great analogy between running efficiently and blogging efficiently. He has recently been attending the Commonwealth Games in Melbourne Australia and noticed that some of the best sprinters glide effortlessly down the track easily beating competitors that push themselves to exhaustion. [...]

By: Declan

Declan — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 00:56:06 +0000

This is a very important post Darren and something I have been very conscious of myself the past couple of weeks. Perhaps you could expand on this in further posts.

By the way what happened to Aaron Brazell being a regular columist on Pro Blogger?

By: Harrison

Harrison — Tue, 21 Mar 2006 00:37:08 +0000

Darren, what a great metaphor you are using. I totally agree with you that building a blog is just like an athlete trying to train up his body to win the match.

In blogging, first of all we have to train up our writing skills, then we must build a blogging rhythm that suitalble for our time management. Last but not least is marketing – how we get readers to our blog to read what we written. In marketing, there really a lot to do and there are no such thing like right or wrong. Maybe certain strategies work for others but not for us. So we must test until we find the results that work best for our blog. In all these processes, we need perseverance and passions like those athletes to keep us going.

Blogging really change my life. After blogging, everyday I spend at least 30 minutes for jogging which I never do before. After jogging I feel fresh and I have a lot of idea for my blogging. I really like the feeling. I think this is because I have the PASSIONS in blogging.