Training is an event
Posted in life on 23. May, 2010
In my walk back from the coffee shop to my apartment, I spent some time reflecting. We spend tons of time training our bodies to do great things, but how much time do we spend training our minds? Many don’t. So when life deals a shitty hand that can’t be resolved with strength of body, you’ll need strength of will and strength of mind instead.
That thought immediately brought me to two quotes from Rip, here’s the first:
On response to a guy who had some life problems lately and afraid of sounding like a “pussy”: You don’t sound like a pussy at all. You sound like a normal human being, just like me, who thankfully has a barbell to keep him sane when things get shitty…and realize that one workout out of thousands does not affect your overall progress. Training is a process, not the events of one day. [Source]
That sounds like it was directed to me, even though it wasn’t. And if you wanted to recap the last few “personal posts” of late, that’s the general message. Powerful people are powerful in body, mind, and spirit. You must train all three.
Second quote:
There is simply no other exercise, and certainly no machine, that produces the level of central nervous system activity, improved balance and coordination, skeletal loading and bone density enhancement, muscular stimulation and growth, connective tissue stress and strength, psychological demand and toughness, and overall systemic conditioning than the correctly performed full squat.
So that tells me how to train my body.
What are the most powerful exercises to train one’s mind and spirit?
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