PUSHING THE LIMIT

You will see this in almost every gym you go to.  People “working out” just going through the motions, waiting for their 30 minutes on the treadmill to be done, the set to be over, or even waiting for their personal training session to be over.  They are relieved when it is finally over, like it was a burden to their time. 

So the question we can all raise from this: What is your attitude when you train?  Are you counting your time until your workout is done?  Are you just going through the motions?  Are you not doing something because you might be sore the next day?  Are you too busy to get a 30-40 minute workout in?  I hope not, because you are doing yourself a great disservice if any of these is true.

What should you be doing then?  Well, if you really want to see results from your training, PUSH THE LIMIT!  Pushing the limit means a lot of things.  The last blog entry talked about finding your weaknesses and getting better at them.  That is one of the pieces to this puzzle.  It also means to find your mental, physical, and emotional limits (both in fitness and life) and continue to push them as far as you can.  A great example of how this happens: Most of the time in a workout, the reason you reach a point where you feel like “that’s too much weight”, or “I need to stop and rest so I can catch my breath” is because your mind is telling you that you’re in discomfort.  In most instances, your body is perfectly capable of continuing on, but your mind stops you.  So an example of pushing the limit mentally would be to tell yourself that you not only CAN do it, but that you WILL do it.  If you are sore tomorrow, oh well, it will go away after you warm up and do your next workout.  Something as little as an overcoming attitude will help push all three (mental, physical, & emotional) limits.  Outside of the gym and on the nutrition side of things, pushing the limit might just mean just sucking it up.  Eating what you know you NEED to eat, rather than what you WANT to eat.  It’s a matter of self-discipline and if you start “Pushing the Limit” both in and out of the gym you will be very happy with the results you get.

At Warrior Performance Gym we realize the results everyone dreams of having can be had by simply “Pushing the Limit.”  The more you can do this, the stronger more confident you will become both in your training and in life. 

“PUSHING THE LIMIT”

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