Does It Get Easier or Harder?

It happened again, someone asked if push ups ever become easy.

I had to break the news. Push ups are always hard.

Good training puts you right on the edge. When 3 push ups become easy, we slow the tempo and add a pause, we then start doing 5 and they’re hard again. When you can do 10, we’re on to the rings, the band resisted, plate loaded and increased range of motion.

Progress like that it can make you feel stuck, like you’re doing the same thing over and over again. The level of difficulty is increasing but the end is no where in sight. The endlessness of the gym is scary when you’re new, but once you’ve been training for long enough you realize it’s crucial to keep you there.

Just know that in the gym, it’s helpful to think of the process, that each rep you do is contributing to your improvement. Training will get easier, and it should. But it’ll never feel easy, it’s going to continually be hard, even as you improve. Keep training!

Justin Miner

@justinminergain