Are You Chasing Fatigue or Progress?

Motivating yourself to workout is hard. Especially if you’ve been training at home and relying on solely on yourself for accountability.

You can imagine how a “good” workout feels. Out of breath, sweaty, heart pounding, need to lay on the floor for 10 minutes afterwards. That’s what a good, effective workout feels like, right?

What if I were to tell you that’s not chasing progress, not actually improving your strength or fitness, it’s chasing fatigue.

We’ve been programmed to think that without feeling like death at the end of a session that it’s unproductive. For those of you at home, finding intensity is hard, and believing you should feel so fatigued at the end of every workout is a misconception.

You want to chase progress. Steady improvement overtime. That means if you skate through a workout without any real hiccups, it’s not a big deal. In the long run, those workouts that feel easy are beneficial. Maybe even more beneficial than those heart-pounding sweat fests that we all associate with productivity. 

Consistency is what matters. Overtime, you will improve and progress and get stronger and more fit. Chasing fatigue gets you no where besides feeling accomplished for a few minutes.

Justin Miner

@justinminergain