Sunday Story…Fitness Challenge 7

Here we are…Food first, Sleep, Recovery and now Training. If you just did the first three you would be head and shoulders ahead of everyone else. You can’t out-train a bad diet. You can’t out-train poor sleep and no recovery so let’s suppose you have those things dialed in. You are now ready to start training.

Notice I use the word “training” not exercise. In this day and age just about everything passes as exercise. Training is different. Training is intentional. Training is mindful; Training has an endpoint, an expected outcome, a reason to be. Get on the treadmill for 20 minutes, read a book, watch some T.V….exercise. Have a fitness plan, execute the plan, be fully engaged in the process, measure your progress and be more fit when you are finished…training. The difference is obvious. Exercise is something you do without thinking…playing scales on the piano, walking after dinner, leafing through a magazine. Training is what you do to achieve an outcome.

You show up to train. You put all your attention and energy into the process. When you are finished you record your results.

Don’t exercise…Train and train hard.

John Mariotti
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