You remember your first kiss; your first car; the first time you tried a Starbucks coffee and complained that they have burnt the coffee by putting too much pressure through the machine; the first time you bought something in a clothes shop that fitted so well you ended up treasuring it until you shrunk it in the wash....you get the picture - there's a first for everything.
Then there is the second first. i.e. going back to Starbucks after having forgotten about the whole burnt coffee episode and then discovering that they actually burn the coffee quite a bit and you then remember, you've been there before.
Training can be like this. You remember your first "MONUMENTAL PB" - usually preceded by a challenge you had set yourself i.e. bench a 100kg. You remember the first time you ran for 30minutes and felt so great you ran another 30. You get the picture.
You also remember a terrible training session, where everything seems to go wrong. You can't lift the weight you had been only a few days earlier or you really can't get into a rhythm because other people are on the machines and you start losing focus on the training all together and just want to head back home asap.
Yes, well I had my "second first" on Wednesday. My first was when I initially started training a few years ago, and remember the guilt and somewhat embarrassment of leaving after 10 minutes. But last night, I tried to persevere, I tried to achieve my 30 minutes of HIT fame, but it wasn't happening. I'd had plenty of rest since my last weight session and my diet since my near death due to alcohol "poisoning" had been "BANG ON" but for some reason I could not find motive, or sway with trying to get through my weights session.
In short, it was a disaster.
Here's to no more "first's" in this department for a few years to come.
Peace
G
Then there is the second first. i.e. going back to Starbucks after having forgotten about the whole burnt coffee episode and then discovering that they actually burn the coffee quite a bit and you then remember, you've been there before.
Training can be like this. You remember your first "MONUMENTAL PB" - usually preceded by a challenge you had set yourself i.e. bench a 100kg. You remember the first time you ran for 30minutes and felt so great you ran another 30. You get the picture.
You also remember a terrible training session, where everything seems to go wrong. You can't lift the weight you had been only a few days earlier or you really can't get into a rhythm because other people are on the machines and you start losing focus on the training all together and just want to head back home asap.
Yes, well I had my "second first" on Wednesday. My first was when I initially started training a few years ago, and remember the guilt and somewhat embarrassment of leaving after 10 minutes. But last night, I tried to persevere, I tried to achieve my 30 minutes of HIT fame, but it wasn't happening. I'd had plenty of rest since my last weight session and my diet since my near death due to alcohol "poisoning" had been "BANG ON" but for some reason I could not find motive, or sway with trying to get through my weights session.
In short, it was a disaster.
Here's to no more "first's" in this department for a few years to come.
Peace
G
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