Finding your competitive fire again can be liberating.
Being competitive with YOURSELF is not a dirty word.
Many people remember their “best years” as 18-35, but we prove every day that this is a big lie. Once you realise, once you find out that you can do great things again, it literally changes your life in all ways.
I know that Kay Owen at 79, come rain or shine is still flipping tyres out the back of the gym, and never wants to lose that strength. She still pushes the prowler across the car park where the grind is really tough. Her competitive fire never goes out, she does what she needs to do to not only still do great things, but she wants to feel great things too, and every day.
If you have given up on yourself at 40-90, then there is strong evidence it’s nothing to do with your body, it’s much more likely that you’re telling yourself a story that it may be easier to believe, much easier than to climb out of the hole you may be in and become fit, strong and healthy again both in body AND mind.
If you are are angry reading this then fantastic, it may even trigger enough anger in you to stoke that fire within you again. Most of us need a catalyst, something to get us off our settees and doing things in life that can make us proud.
Do me a favour, do not ask someone who never exercises, someone who eats crap, someone who drinks every night whether you should exercise again, whether you should eat healthy again, because they will be very happy if you feed rubbish into your body every day, it will make them feel a lot better for the lifestyle they lead.
Better to ask someone who has come back from the brink of years of not exercising, eat rubbish for years, and who has become a champion (in my eyes) again by getting fit, healthy and strong again. and ask them right now how they feel, and what the difference really is between both lifestyles.
There’s only one winner. Will you tell yourself the truth and re-kindle your fire or live a lie telling yourself you cant do it anymore, and worst of all you’re not going to even try?
