1 Thought That Can Make You Push Through Any Workout

You're running, you can feel every muscle in your body working to help you move, possibly muscles you didn't even know you could feel so intensely. You look down at the time, and then you see that it's only been 3 minutes into your half hour jog... One of your first thoughts becomes, "Oh my goodness, how on earth am I going to make it 27 more minutes?" There is a way to switch that discouragement into a motivating thought. This change will not only help you accomplish that 30 minute jog, but it will help you push harder with every minute that passes.

During training, heading into competition, I am required to do 55 minutes of fasted cardio of interval sprints, seven days a week. Fasted simply means training on no food before a workout. In another post I will go over the importance of fasted cardio and how it can help speed up your progress. As I was doing the sprints everyday, I started to get a little lazy and not push myself as hard. The sprint speed and drive to push through 25 more minutes, after already doing a half hours worth was lower each day. Until one of the motivational videos I listened to when I was working out said a profound statement that stuck with me. It changed my whole mindset and I started pushing harder than before.

It will not last forever. Pain is temporary.

I can't claim that statement. Many successful, smart men have said it over and over again many times before me. If you push through a few uncomfortable minutes you can achieve what you want and your life will be easier and happier because of it. If you neglect to push through the pain and moments of discomfort, your life will be hard.

I believe it was Les Brown who said that pain is temporary in the speech that I was listening to. My sprints were just under halfway being done and my whole body was saying I had been working hard for a while now and I deserved another easy day. Rest was good for me... (The devil is in the details on that statement). Then I heard, "If you do what is hard, your life will be easy. If you do what is easy, your life will be hard. This moment will not last forever, the pain will subside. It is only temporary." It was one of those light bulb moments. 30 more minutes of intense sprints wouldn't kill me. I would actually feel a 110 times better if I pushed myself than if I went easy. The sprints weren't going to last forever or all day, and soon enough they would be over. Why not give it my all? What was it going to hurt? Was I going to die from pushing myself harder? No. I might feel like it, but 30 minutes of pain is better than a life time of suffering and wishing I would of tried harder to reach my goals.

"If you do what is hard, your life will be easy. If you do what is easy, your life will be hard. This moment will not last forever, the pain will subside. It is only temporary." - Les Brown