If you’ve ever had a peek at the main page of this website, you’d know this much already. This is what Reps And The Rest is all about. And, what training for me is all about.
Balancing health and fitness for a strong, fulfilling life.
Not to be a gym junkie*, but to live a vigorous life doing what you love.
Not to compete, but to explore and complete.
Not to rush, but to reconnect with nature, yourself and the people you love.
Inspire, teach and help others to do the same.
And shape a better world.
*or worse, a fitspo-bullshit social media “sensation”.
But since I have the somewhat annoying tendency to dig deeper than sometimes necessary, let’s. Here are three further points to round out what training is all about.
Mission statement for training:
Do just enough.
Walk away feeling like you could do a bit more. Sometimes a lot more, other times little more.
Sure sometimes we do more than enough. But most of the time when that happens it’s just to chase the feeling of tiredness. Which in itself rarely leads to anything more than, well, feeling tired. But sometimes that’s a nice feeling. This is pretty much the opposite to Crossfit (or sex) where you go until you no longer can.
Do it with purpose.
Training itself is not the thing. Rather, training is done to get better at something (hiking, climbing, running) or to reach a very specific goal (body composition). Or, my favourite, just to live a more robust life.
And here’s where it gets tricky. Most people (including myself) say that they train to have a more robust life, but ignore the first principle here by doing way more than just enough.
When we do more than just enough we risk injury, overtraining, exhaustion, soreness and whatnot. All of which lead away from a robust life.
Everything connects.
