Training

Wanting to lay around in bed as your body withers and wastes to the confines of a dirty, measly, or comfortable couch vs. taking your body through an extreme course of focused work and intense pain that by the end leaves you feeling brand new and regenerated is a CHOICE! I know that was a lot for an introduction, however you must understand the reason as to why you must workout; and not just workout but train. Training for the mind and body that unlocks something much more than just a chiseled body. A re-flourished soul… I’ll explain how training in itself is much more beneficial than working out. Lets start!

Focus

The #1 reason as to why training in itself is better than working out is the focus being exerted into each exercise. When you workout with an intent to just lift the weight or do the pushup, it creates a limited mindset in which most effort won’t be put into the action. I myself have had trouble with specifically, driving effort and thus creating focus. The ONLY way to create focus is to try as hard as you can and keep going until you can’t; and even then keep going. Pushing each and every single barrier throughout so that you’ll never even think about how hard it is. You just do it because this focus has evolved to see outside of the physical pain and mental endurance. In time you’ll become adjusted to not just seeing the effects but feeling them as well. From pushing your body to the extreme, this focus will be transferred to different areas in life where this focus will be needed.

Mastery

Whenever someone “works out” a specific body part and only that body part, one more part of the body becomes limited and restricted in some way. Now I understand that you can train for specific body parts, however training in itself only mastery will be gained in that specific part, not the whole body. Some train for endurance, some train for strength, explosive power, or just to walk normally. There are different ways someone can train; yet only specifics will be covered. It is training but mastery will be gained in only specifics, not the entire body. To truly train, your mind must be unlocked to the idea of “every part of the body is one, and I must move them as one”. To specify is to limit, to broaden is to breakthrough.

A day for legs, or a day for arms/back/chest anything dealing with specifics should be thrown out the window. In order to truly unlock your body, you must train every single part of the body every. single. day. That way full mastery of every part will be gained, leaving you a lot less vulnerable to uncomfortable tasks to even stretching your body. Which leads me to my 3rd point…

Breakthrough’s

This ties in to the first point, however it is crucial to understand this specific. Breaking through a barrier that you may have had before. Working out effortlessly will never show you your limits and never teach you to push beyond them. Working out even for 5 hours a day won’t push your limits. The only thing that will push your limits is trying to breakthrough them through the amount of effort being exerted into each movement. Each time you undertake a new exercise, finding out the limit in which you can go is the most important goal. Not how many you can do, or how fast you can go. It’s about how much effort I can put into this so I can find out my limit. Each breakthrough is different for every person. It might take you a month or even a year to breakthrough a specific barrier. However, I believe only through training can this be possible. Everything is transferred to other areas of life that you breakthrough or find an awakening on it’s just about how you use it in that area. Training to breakthrough with an intense focus, will shatter any doubt or concern about limits because you know you’ll just breakthrough them.

Quick

You may believe that training itself is very time consuming, however that is not the case. As I’ve said before, training is about focus and effort. How much you put into the overall actions will determine if you just worked out or if you trained. You can very much workout all day, in fact at a 9-5 job, you pretty much are working out during that time frame. On your feet, doing monotonous, physical tasks that you wouldn’t be doing in your free time. It doesn’t take a lot of time to train, however it does take a lot of effort. You have to be 100% or even 110% every time you train. That is if you want to constantly break the limits you believed you had… Take 45 minutes or even 1 hour out of the day to hit the gym or use your body at home to just workout each part of your body. Pushups, squats, sit-ups, mountain runners, anything you can possibly do that uses more than 1 muscle group to exercise. Time yourself and even within that 1 hour if you’ve pushed yourself enough, every day, you’ll see some real results that won’t ever be found in just benching 225 just because you can.

Conclusion

There are a multitude of different reasons as to why training is consistently better just for longevity of retaining and maintaining a body weight and even keeping a clear mind. I’ll explain more of this in future posts however the one main take-away from here is put your all into your work. Put everything you can possibly imagine into it, no matter how painful or enduring the action is. Whether something as small as a pushup or even to squatting 300 lbs. It doesn’t matter, train with intent to breakthrough at a quick and efficient pace, and your mind WILL be free to continue to break every other limit you have in life.

Thank you.