It has been a long while. Life has a funny way of keeping you occupied and having fun. That is if you are living it right of course which brings me to my first topic for today. Like what you do. It is as easy as that. Training for some competition or just getting your daily workout on should not be a task, it should be an admiration of yours. Whether you enjoy the beat down in the gym or the rewards after the workout, you still need to enjoy it. You need to be able to look back at the past few months of working out and with a smile say that it was worth it to be where you are now. It is not hard, but hard work is always rewarded. ALWAYS WORK HARD.
This is not to say that you will not enjoy every day of training. It is up and down and we can all agree upon the fact that every once in a while we have a day where a bar seems like the heaviest weight in the world or 400m seems like a marathon. Those are the days that matter the most. They define us as an athlete and a person. You need to separate manhood from boyhood. Somewhere out there is a person exactly like you that is doing that extra squat that you do not want to do, doing that extra sprint that you don't care about. They will be the ones faster stronger and sexier than you. BE THAT PERSON.
What defines greatness is not being great on a good day, it is pushing through every rep and pushing your hardest when you feel like you are tired and think that you cannot possibly go further. If your body is still moving when you set the weight down, pick it back up and let your body dictate when to set it down and not your mind. Doing sets of 5 to get through 30 reps. That is not your body talking, that is your mind picking a good number to rest. We do not get better listening to our mind. We achieve greatness from listening to our body and ignoring our mind.
When training and working out, push at the pace you want to be at, and when you start to fatigue and slow down this is when the workout really starts. This is the point that will separate us from the person that woke up this morning from the fit athlete we want to become.
We define ourselves and control who we are. If you want it bad enough, you will push that extra bit for it, but if your heart is not in it and you truly do not want it, then you will fail to succeed. Enjoy the pain or enjoy the results because if there is no enjoyment there is no fuel for greatness.
-Renaissance Man
