Most people remember their very strongest times of their lives, physically, mentally, emotionally, the whole thing. Confidence came with it along with belief, almost nothing was off the table and life was pretty exciting.
Then we remember our weakest times, when we struggled, we had more worries, we would avoid challenges sometimes, we would rather have “a quiet life”, and we would put off potential opportunity until “tomorrow”.
This morning was the start of another new programme at the gym, the same old questions persist, will anyone like it? Is it too easy or too hard? Is there too little or too much? Will some movements be off limits to too many people?
Thankfully, it was a strong start today, and these plans are always designed to make you your strongest physically, but also mentally because you have three weeks to master it, to get better at it, to keep facing down big challenges and be all the better for it.
You can’t help develop more confidence and inner strength if you can do well through this new programme, you cannot help develop more resilience not only to training but to everything else in life too.
In life we are often faced with stress and mentally we need to be on top of our game to deal with it well.
We don’t get strong mental strength from simply “wishing for it” or being only part the way in, we get it from proving ourselves, proving we still have it and being ALL in, we prove to ourselves we can get stuck in and even if its a little uncomfortable to start with, we can and WILL get through it and come out the other side knowing we are strong, very capable and ready for anything in life..
