Who Joins Your Workouts?

You’re gonna but a point in your workout where you invite in your inner critic or your inner athlete to join you. If you’re truly working out with the intention of getting stronger and creating a transformation for yourself, the majority of your workouts will get to the point where you’re totally over it. Your lungs are burning, your heart is on fire, and your mind starts wandering to all the other things you COULD be doing besides working out. Like doing your taxes. Go figure something so tedious could sound so much more appealing when you’re sweating your ass off.

Unfortunately, I think that most of us get to that place of being faced with adversity or a major challenge, and we tend to go to a super negative place in our heads. We tend to think about all the things we feel like we suck at and not all the things we’re fantastic at.

That critic in your head can get super freaking loud too. Sometimes that critic can get so loud that you start thinking “well maybe I’ll just stop now, I only have 5 seconds left on this interval” or you stop with a couple reps to go. Over time, it becomes easier and easier to just stop a little earlier on your workout. Then that eventually builds into avoiding the workout all together.

Every single person I train is an athlete. Every single person I train is strong and completely capable of finishing the workout they start. I’ll remind you of that every time you workout and you notice that negative voice starting to creep in.

You are so much stronger than you give yourself credit for and you are capable of so much more than you think. I know that. I know you can get through the workout you’re currently in and wanting to stop and you’re more than able to crush the next one too. Don’t doubt yourself. You got this.