No Limits Fitness : Effort

I spend about 3 to 4 hours a day at the gym. Only a small portion of that includes me actually working out. The greater portion of that time involves observing others working out. Every one of the people I see on a daily basis are unique. They all have different abilities, strengths, and weaknesses. We have some people that come in who are just beginning their weight loss/fitness journey ranging up to people that are super fit competitive athletes. All of them want results. Not everyone that walks in the door gets results.

Everything we do can be scaled to your ability. Sometimes that means not squatting quite as low to keep pressure off sore knees. Sometimes that means doing push ups on the wall or a box due to wrist issues. Some people can do pull ups. Some people can do them with a band to help. Some people must do ring rows instead. Sometimes, scaling things to your ability means moving up the scale. You may be ready to squat a bit lower. You may need to move from ring rows to jumping pull ups. You may need to step up your step ups and do box jumps instead.

In the past few months, I've seen a lady go from needing assistance to do a sit up to doing 150 of them at a time. I've seen a man go from not being able to get on the ground to doing a modified burpee. I've seen people come in day after day, lose weight, feel better, run farther and get excited to do more. I’ve seen people who are super fit get even stronger and faster. I’ve watched people lift their first bar, do their first pull up, or run their first marathon.

Then, there are the people that come in, go through the motions and go home. They may be out of shape, or relatively fit. It really doesn’t matter where they start, because they never really change. They’ve been lifting the same weight for a year. They’re still running at the same pace.

You may say, but they’re exercising. They’re moving their bodies so they’re healthy. All is good. The problem is, our bodies get used to a certain level of activity. In order to raise our heart rate today, we have to do a little more than we did yesterday. That doesn’t mean that if we worked out for 30 minutes yesterday that we have to work out for an hour today. It means that if you did 50 burpees in 5 minutes, you should push a little harder and get them done 30 seconds faster. If you’re really good at goblet squats with 20 lbs, maybe you should try 25 lbs. If you do a workout in a certain time, and 3 months later you do the same workout in the exact same time something is wrong. That means the first time you may have pushed at 100% and the second time you only gave 90%.

Thank you for reading. As a reward for reading this till the end we want to offer you 30 days of fitness classes for just $30. All you need to do is share this blog and show up at No Limits Fitness before April 22nd, 2015 and tell Rick that you want "results like Gidget" and the deal is yours.