“Impatience is a vice; vice is a
disgrace,” my son said the other day in the car, adapting the old adage about
patience and virtue to the current topic, which was probably traffic, since we
were in the car. Impatience is
also dangerous, especially in a fitness context.
Our bodies adapt to what we
require of them. All they ask is a
little time to get used to it. We
can finish that long race and lift that amazingly heavy weight, but only if we
let the body adjust by finishing shorter races and lifting lighter weights on
our way. We need to show the body
not only what to do, but how to do it so we can live to tell the tale with a
minimum of soreness.
We are, mostly, tortoises. We put in the slow and steady work to
win. Admittedly, we aspire to
being tortoises with bursts of speed at the crucial moments. We get those by being smart.
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