The swimmer who trains for 3 months and expects to be a champion and beat her friends who have been at t for years, the pianist who starts learning how to play the piano and expects to play for packed audiences within 6 months, the person who has golf lessons and then expects to be on the golf team within a few months, the cook who attends cooking school and expects to work as a very well paid chef as soon as they qualify.
All examples of things that will never happen.
With more practice, hard work, highs and lows, heartbreak and victories, yet more hard work, plenty of grinding away even when they didn’t feel like it, being let down, overcoming disappointment and losses, thoughts of quitting, thoughts they weren’t good enough in the first place, others telling them they shouldn’t bother even.
This is often the process everyone has to go through to become really good at something, yes it’s a long way to the top (if you want rock n roll!).
With the gym, if you want great success in one month, it’s not going to happen, yes you will feel better, stronger, fitter and you will have a greater sense of wellbeing, in six months those feelings will go up times ten.
But you have to realise you have to keep showing up, you have to grind it out, do the programmes, do the work, face things you may not think possible until you DO get the impossible done through practice, through perseverance, through application and determination.
Don’t fancy that? The question should be, when it comes to your health, can you afford not to have great health, great balance, be fit and strong, have a very good lung capacity, a strong heart and a very good sense of well-being, which all leads to great mental health.
I tell the exact same to the multi millionaires I train, the kids I train, the 90 year olds I train and literally everyone in between I will tell you the truth too.
Doing hard things makes you better in every area of your life and I back you all the way to do great things, so its YOUR choice how great you want to be!!!
