Talking (yesterday) about the Sessions at RISE……..
I had the number of people make essentially the same comment during Sessions the other day.
The title to this blog.
“I struggled with that”
As in, they’d found what they’d just done difficult.
“Good” was my response.
“That’s what we’re looking for”
Because exercise has to be a struggle, to a degree, to elicit change in the body.
We don’t have to grind ourselves in to the ground doing something that’s no fun whatsoever.
But there should be an element of challenge.
If what we’re doing is comfortably within the body’s capability then, at most, it’ll just burn a few extra calories.
Increased fitness, strength, endurance and health does require some degree of challenge.
Struggling is fine.
If it becomes less of a struggle, it will become less effective.
No matter how long we’ve been exercising for, for continued progression, we need some sort of increase in what we’re doing.
Not to make it harder.
Just to stop it getting easier.
The same level being less effective as that fitness, strength and endurance increases.
We don’t really get to choose not to struggle in life.
We perhaps just get to choose our struggle.
The struggle of both getting our workouts in and of doing them……..
Or the struggles of worsening health and fitness and a body we like they’re look and feel of less.
The struggles related to eating better or the struggles caused by eating worse.
The struggles of work or the struggles of no money.
And so on.
Struggling isn’t to be avoided…….
It’s to be tactically chosen 8(choose better struggles that ‘future you’ will thank you for at www.myrise.co.uk/apply)
And, in tomorrow’s blog, I’ll cover the difference between struggling and suffering.
Much love,
Jon ‘William Curtis Harness Jr’ Hall
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RISE in Macclesfield was established in 2012 and specialise in Group Personal Training weight loss programmes for those that don’t like the gym and find diets boring and restrictive!
