What I’ve Learned So Far

The other day I was talking to a like-minded friend about why we like to work out. (For “like-minded,” read “frazzled by the thousand tasks at hand.”)

She got at the heart of it when she said, in so many words, that both of us enjoy the methodical, non-thinking routines of fitness. You plan what you’re going to do, and then you can stop all of your intellectualizing while you go into the gym and do the work.

Just so.

For one more wrinkle on the appeal exerted by weightlifting’s methodical nature, I’d point you to this article from the Tried & True Fitness blog:

The Magic of Training

Here’s the moral of the story:

In the outside world, “impossible” is usually a permanent condition. But in the gym, under the bar, impossible is only a temporary situation. What’s impossible today can be accomplished with ease four days later. 

Read the whole post.

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(Photo by Brian L. Romig, used under a Creative Commons BY-NC-ND license.)

This entry was posted on Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 at 5:31 pm and is filed under Living richly, Fitness & Health.