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10 Things Fitness Teaches You About Life -
12-06-2007
10 THINGS FITNESS TEACHES YOU ABOUT LIFE By: Maria Kang #1 No Good Pain, No Good Gain In order to achieve results, you have to put your muscles under uncomfortable circumstances. You have to have the body and mind power to push yourself past the limits of comfort and to a place where you felt it was not possible to achieve. During periods of discomfort, your body will have to adapt to the new stress you are putting upon it. Your body could react by losing body fat for energy, or gaining muscle for strength. At the same time, your body might negatively react by tearing a ligament, so be sure that you understand the difference between good and bad pain. Similarly, in life, you must also put yourself under circumstances that cause you to become fearful, unstable, and unpredictable. These circumstances will challenge your mind to gain the survival tools necessary to adapt to this new environment it's forced to live in. If you want to grow and develop, you have to take risks, and see how your body, your mind and your spirit adapts to the changes you are placing upon it. #2 If You Want To Change, Something Has To Change If you want to achieve great things in fitness, then you have to change your habits. Changing your habits is one of the hardest things to overcome because it is the bread and butter of who you are. But in order to create results, you have to identify the habits holding you back from achieving your goals, and change them. While the hardest thing to do is identify the problem; the second hardest thing to do is create an action plan that prohibits you from repeating the pattern, over and over again. Just like in life, there are things that we want to achieve, such as saving more money, being kinder to others, or being less angry, but in order to change, something has to change. So find what triggers your bad habits, and then create a different action to change them. #3 Every Day Is A New Battle It doesn't matter how much you lifted yesterday, or if you did cardio everyday last week. It doesn't even matter if you were Mr. Olympia, or just completed your best exercise set five minutes ago?what are you going to do right now to change your life, to progress you even further, to where you want to be in the future? Every day we begin our day with specific short term goals, and every night we go to sleep having completed, or not completed that goal. But every day, is a new day, and the cycle continues. In life, we have to constantly remind ourselves that this cycle will not end until the day we die. We have to constantly struggle to be better than we were yesterday, to test and overcome the limits of our body, mind and spirit is what creates a true champion of life. #4 Get To The Core Of The Matter 
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