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I was having a workout with members Lee and Jamie the other day.
OYT represent!
And we’d finished a set of something or other.
I forget what.
Jamie was puffing a bit.
And said “I’m so unfit”.
“It’s not being unfit” I replied.
“It’s working hard”.
We’ve mentioned many time before that our exercise structure is very ‘Goldilocks’.
“Not too easy, not to hard” (check myrise.co.uk/briefing-meeting if you like the sound of that).
Enough to elicit a change in the body.
Not so much we don’t enjoy it or don’t want to do it again.
Everyone works at their own level – fitness, strength, experience, injuries, energy levels that day and more considered.
All being well, everyone should feel approximately the same at the end of a set or the end of the workout.
It’s just different people will have different versions to do to get that same feeling.
If Jamie hadn’t been puffing a bit at that point, I’d suggest he’d gone for too easy a version.
The other week Andy (former coach with us who moved to London a year ago) and I had a little ‘race’ over a live stream whilst doing the Monday session.
Several people commented that night that they were surprised to see that we’d found it difficult.
We were, of course, working at the level appropriate for us.
The weights and speeds that made it ‘Goldilocks’.
In fact, it’s kinda the opposite to what we might think.
The fitter someone is, the more workouts they’ll have been puffing in, not less.
There’s really no such thing as being ‘unfit’.
Sure, we may not be at the fitness level we’d like just now.
But we can do an appropriate level of a workout to move that in the direction we’d like.
Of course, we don’t want to go so far we don’t like it and don’t want to come back.
But finding it ‘appropriately challenging’?
“It’s not being unfit………. It’s working hard”.
Much love,
Jon ‘Daddy Bear’ Hall and Matt ‘This porridge is too cold’ Nicholson
