Workout of the Week: Suffer, Recover, Repeat

Challenging workout that tests stamina and your ability to recover.

Suffering and Recovering

“When you’re in the gym and you’re hurting that’s when you’re improving. The growth happens during recovery, but the work that forces the adaptation happens when it’s difficult.”

-Mat Fraser

Anyone can go hard for a set amount of time. The real challenge is showing back up when you know how difficult it’s going to be - when you’re already fatigued and feel like you’ve done enough.

Life demands more of you when you least expect it. Emergencies arise at inopportune times. Adversity isn’t considerate of your condition.

Showing up when you don’t feel like it differentiates advanced from average.

How does your mind respond to a challenge when your body isn’t 100%?

The mind can either manage or exacerbate the stress response based on permitted thoughts.

Today’s fitness challenge trains not only stamina - the ability to sustain high output - but even more so, the mind during recovery.

Anxiety versus acceptance of a future challenge is a choice. With acceptance, recovery and eventual output are optimized.

“The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.”

-Marcus Aurelius

Today’s challenge provides an opportunity to start painting your spirit with resilient colors.

Effective suffering and recovering both contain skills that can be trained.

Understand the concepts, train the strategies, and begin applying them in your life across domains.

Can you suffer, recover, and then repeat that process multiple times?

Training for resilience is the path to self-mastery.

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Suffer, Recover, Repeat

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