Max It Out
For those of you that have exercised or worked with a personal trainer you work out with weights. It’s about a full workout. Weights get added in, in a variety of ways. Cardio alone will not do it long term. You need weight training. You need to put the stress on your body. You need to break your body down with weights in order to build it back up; stronger and healthier. And you know, that once you start weight training, the weights get heavier, and heavier and heavier.
You’ve been there. It’s leg day. The weight day you hate most. Your trainer has you hit the squat rack and you do different sets at the rack. The first one, easy. It’s just you and the bar and you squatting to warm up and ensure you have the form needed. The bar alone weighs 45 pounds. Then your trainer adds 15 pounds on each side, 30 pounds total, making it a combined 75 pounds. Then the plates come off and your trainer adds 25 pound plates to each side for a combined total of 95 pounds.
This continues. The weight continues to be added on. You feel you can’t do it. It’s too heavy. But you try and your trainer encourages you. You did it. You squatted 235 pounds today.
You maxed yourself out. You added more plates. You can now push more weight than you ever thought possible. Your max weight is now the amount of weight you just squatted. So next time it’s leg day, expect to go past it.
Exercise and weight training are great examples to use and metaphors to lean on. It describes plainly what stress to the body can do. What the pain of the workout brings. How you go in, out of shape, physically and mentally. And leave better. By adding more weight. By doing five more. By running one extra minute.
You can handle this situation you face right now. The stressors of work, life, family and marriage. The bull shit kids do and say. The terminal illness scare. The death of someone you love. These are all weights. Being added on for you to max out. You can get under the bar and push it off or you can quit. All reasonable options. But to max out in your life you have to max out the weights being piled on top of you. It’s about getting stronger. Raising your minimum. Increasing your maximum. And looking at the situation you’re facing in the eyes without fear. You build up your self-esteem and confidence.
Each time you grow through something, you are maxing out the weight you can handle.
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