What does it really cost you to do what you’re doing right now. Sure you had to fight back some sleep. You had to force yourself out of bed and throw on your weighted vest. Come out to the cold garage and start your workout. Yes that part is all hard to do. I think that’s the hardest part though. I mean I’ve been analyzing how I’m feeling as I continue to knock out everything I had to do and I got to say, I feel ok. The tiredness goes away after a set or two. There is fatigue in between but plenty of time to reset the fatigue and go again. So what’s really hard about all this is not the workout itself, but the getting up part. Setting yourself up for it. Once you’re there and it’s started, it’s easy. You can’t leave it undone that would make you a quitter. Your brain wouldn’t allow that, that’s why you’re almost done right now. You’re here and awake, may as well finish this now and not think about it later.
And that’s the key—you’ve already broken through the hardest part. The resistance was strongest when you were still in bed. When the warmth, the comfort, the ease of staying put was pulling you back in. But once you got up, once you started moving, the battle was already won.
Everything after that? Momentum. The fatigue comes, sure, but it’s manageable. It’s not the mountain your mind made it seem like. You find your rhythm, you breathe, you keep going. It’s easier to finish than to quit. You’ve wired yourself that way. You know that stopping now would be worse than any exhaustion you feel.
So you go. Not because it’s easy, but because it’s what you do. Because the version of you that gave in to comfort is gone. The one who’s left? He’s built for this. And that’s why you’re going to finish. And why you’ll do it all again tomorrow.
