06/05/2023
Many would think that what you demand of your body it will perform. This isn’t fully true. You have to teach your body what you need from it through training. You have to learn how to tell it what you need. You have to speak in a language it knows.
As a beginner, your focus should be moving well. How we do things is the first level of communication with ourselves. We learn control. Soon, we will find our limits. This can be in strength, speed, endurance or range and is where your body begins to communicate back. Learn to listen. When to push and when to give. In time, we can ask more accurately and appropriately. We would have learned how to listen for when we have overreached or underperformed. Then our limits will begin to expand beyond into new areas.
For some, too much of the gym is what weight is being lifted. Instead think more about what you are saying to your body. Can it understand? If so, then growth will follow.