06/22/2026
Why is harder better?
When I visited Vietnam back in July 2017, I stayed with a family in the valley for a couple of nights. It was the hottest I’ve ever been in my entire life. I took the most uncomfortable shower over the seat of a toilet at the end of the day and as soon as I turned the water off, I was back to pouring sweat. There was no relief and when I set up my sleeping area, upstairs, I laid there thinking, I don’t know if I can actually do this. “This” being just laying there in the dead of heat, under a roof.
I felt extremely pathetic and when I found out that just days after giving birth, the Vietnamese women will strap their babies on their backs and return to the rice fields, well that was it for me. I knew right then and there that my physically hardest day was a cake walk for the people I was sharing a home with that week. And I would never complain again about something being physically hard.
Since the norm in the world I live in is not exactly challenging and most people are not exactly healthy, I am happy to work a little harder. This is related to fitness, but also other areas in my life. The easy way is not always the best way.
This got me thinking about the work we do at Strength Fitness. None of it is especially easy, but that’s because I don’t want anyone in our program to fall into the trap of being “average” or “typical” when it comes to health. I also want people to experience accomplishing hard things.
The feeling of success and progress only comes with hard work. And we have plenty of that for you at our gym!
Us coaches push you in our classes because we know that if we don’t, no one else will. We know that by telling you to go just a little longer or to push just a little harder, you are breaking out of the comfortableness of average and stepping into a life that is healthier and will last longer than most!