Fitness Musings

Just because you have "no limits" in your workout doesn't mean you should approach discussions the same way. You do in fact have intellectual and educational limits. We all do. Know what you're talking about before you argue emphatically for a certain side on an issue. You can't just "lift harder" in an argument and force your way into rightness.

It doesn't work that way, and trying to do so makes you look like a complete fool.

Furthermore, if you go around preaching about pacing yourself and knowing your limits in your training, but you follow up by overextending yourself intellectually, you're a hypocrite. Stop it.

Chasing specific lift numbers in your weight training sessions is not entirely unlike chasing a belt in martial arts training; both are often the result of being enamored with something shiny, sexy, and *externally visible*.

And in both cases, with experience and understanding, we eventually learn that there is so much more to be gained from the process than the stuff that may have first enticed us to begin. You can get healthier and experience countless benefits even if you aren't moving more weight. You can become more skilled and deepen your knowledge every day, even if your formal rank in your doesn't change.

There's a lesson there.