Usually, I focus on the positive, but every once in a while it’s good to remember what NOT to do. Here are five things to skip:
1. Comparisons. Our workouts are our own. There are workouts out there that are too hard for us and others that are too easy. We need to concentrate on the one we are doing. What that woman over there is doing is not relevant. That guy doing whatever it is he is doing does not matter to our workout unless he literally crashes into us.
2. Time travel. This is sort of a subset of comparisons. We can only do today’s workout. Maybe we did much harder workouts when we were twenty, but that does not change what we are doing today. In six months, we may be doing far more amazing things, but, again, not relevant today.
3. Self-Trash Talk. I’m all in favor of trash-talking the weights—they have no feelings to speak of—but we need to make a point of talking nicely to ourselves about how we showed up and are working. No bitching about how slow/fat/weak/whatever we are because it does not help.
4. Excuses. We’re creative. I get it. We can come up with really good reasons to skip workouts all day long. The thing is, we don’t get fit by talking about workouts; we get fit by working out. This is not to say that we should never skip workouts—life happens—but that we should be very careful to make good choices most of the time.
5. Burnout. I know I just said we need to skip the excuses. Scheduling rest days is not the same as flaking off. We need to plan rest just the same way we plan workouts.
Now go play.
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