The hardest workout is the second one. We can gear ourselves up for the first one and we have that shiny new energy going for us and maybe even a sense of virtue. We don’t necessarily expect to be good at what we’re doing, so we just go along with whatever happens.
Then the time for the second workout rolls around. Our former blissful ignorance has been obliterated by soreness. We look at the weights and resent them for their heaviness, their deceptively small size, their treachery. We have become more familiar with the steps we’re supposed to take, but this does not somehow translate into making us more willing to take them.
Good news! Workouts after the second one are better. We learn more. We understand how to keep the soreness afterward to a bearable level. We begin to associate the work we do with the outcomes we want: more energy, greater strength, looser waistbands.
We can do this.
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