Focus is important for a
lot of reasons, but there is one in particular that I have on my mind: the MYOB
principle. Minding our own business is,
in many ways, countercultural. We live
in a competitive soup that will boil us alive if we let it. School, sport, work… all of them tend to
focus on rankings and wins.
But when the time comes
to work out, we need to let that go, especially in a class environment. We have to tune in to our own bodies and see
only our own performance or we risk injury.
That guy in the front row might be freakishly flexible and trying to
emulate him will do nothing more than win us a trip to the couch with ice. That woman with the enormous weights? She’s been working up to that for years and
we need to remember that we’ve only come to class twice so far.
We need to do our workout,
paying attention to what we are doing, how it feels, and how to make it better.
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