Now, I don’t mean this in a thinking you're a robot or that the universe is actually us living in the matrix, I mean, do you ever strive for such greatness that you forget you are an emotional being who is at more than one point in their life going to fail.
Within the fitness industry, we are surrounded by top athletes, by top lifters, by people who have more abs than we could even count on our stomach. So, does this mean that due to their success that ours is less?
Nope.
Do you find, that because you are not at where they may be that you are allowing yourself to guilt trip your success into not being as good? into not being as hard working as them? You’ll probably find, that you do this without taking into account that, they are in fact on level 10 which has taken them 10-15 years and you are level 2 which is because you are merely at the beginning, not because you are not on their success rate.
I find that my clients often come to me with self-destructive guilty tripping;
“I ate too much”
“I missed a workout”
“I didn’t beat my personal best”
“I’m not good enough”
My reply, is usually the same to this. YOU ARE HUMAN. Allow yourself to be just this, this means allowing yourself to miss workouts, to have slip ups, to have a day of shit dieting, to have days where you genuinely wonder why you bother getting into fitness, days where you aren’t going to feel 100%. Fucking allow it.
Never stop excepting the best from yourself. But always fucking stop guilt tripping yourself when you don’t quite reach that. Because you’re not always going to. As Ant Middleton from “SAS who dares wins” once quoted – “ it is not failure, it is life”, meaning that, you are never failing, you are living and within life there will always be excepted downfalls but it does not mean you’re shit, it does not mean that you deserve to self-destruct and guilt trip yourself into a worsening diet or life.
I once was this person, I used to binge, I got stuck in the cycle of binging, hating, binging, hating until I had a coach who told me, “tomorrow is a new day”. And that clicked, if you have a “bad” day, realise that tomorrow you have another 24hours fucking hours to succeed and the person you were the day before, wont be the person that you'll ever be again.
So be fucking human.
Be the being that has the ability to live through their hardships, let those hardships change you, don’t give in to them, don’t allow them to emotionally ruin your progress, don’t give in to that part of your brain that tells you that the fitness inspo you’ve been following for years has got there quicker than you.
You won’t succeed every single day, so fucking deal with it.
Accept it.
Doing so, will make your life so much easier, it will make your progression so much easier. If you're on a journey, whether this be in fitness, weightloss, weight gain, health changing abilities, it is a journey. So the destination is NOT going to come fucking quick. Enjoy the journey and the excitement of it as if you would on a car journey to your favourite destination, that feeling of suspense, yet anxiety because you know WHAT you're driving towards, which is exciting, but you don’t know how you're going to FEEL when you arrive there, which is something to fill you with anguish.
What is the rush?
Ask yourself.
Love.
ASFIT Coaching.