How do you have the best time in the gym?

January 21, 2024

When you’re not used to it, going to the gym can look so boring and exhausting. In fact, if you do it for the wrong reasons and a negative attitude, it’s very easy to see it as paying to do the equivalent of manual labor with no pay off.

That’s why it’s important to have a very good reason to be there. For most successful cases—that’s taking care of their body.

Connect With Your Body

Your body is where your mind lives, and how you experience and move through your entire life. Everything it can it does for you without question or complaint, and it asks very little in return: keep it warm, safe, clean, and give it some food.

It’s yours, free and clear, for life. Nothing you have, or will ever buy, can serve you and your needs in the way your body does; it’s nature is to help you live the best life you can, but the only thing it can’t do is think for itself—and that’s where you come in.

Find A Good Pace

For such an amazing, efficient instruments, it’s only fair to give it the same love and care any prized possession deserves. That starts with a nutritional strategy that gears up your body for a workout, making sure you have enough energy to push through.

Whether you’re doing cardio or strength training, make sure you start low and then work your way up. Let your body give as much as it can, while you listen and take notes on how much it can comfortably handle and for how long—the same way you tune a guitar or a musical instrument.

Gently Press Your Boundaries

Once you know what your body can comfortably give, you ask it to give ten more minutes, one more rep, one more set. It won’t be comfortable, and you will be sore afterwards—but your body will give, as it always does. When you get used to it, with that mutual trust and respect you now have with your body, you move that needle.