"Do not bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself". - Dale Carnegie
The above quote resonates with me because recently I have realized that I have become caught up in my performance (or lack of performance) in my training. I have been training with kettlebells for over 7 years and recently started mixing in Crossfit. I am a very competitive person and find Crossfit be very motivating as opposed to training on my own.
But lately have been beating myself up not just for my performance compared against my previous workouts but for my performance COMPARED to my peers. As I go back to the preceeding statement I realize that although it is a good indication of my overall progress in my training to compare myself to my peers the reality is as long as I am making progress on a personal basis against my OWN set of numbers then I am going in the right direction.
This concept works in all parts of out life: fat loss, muscle gain, etc. Sometimes we get caught up in other people's performance and results and focus on our short-comings relative to theirs. All this negative thinking does is undermine our efforts and mentally deminish our accomplishments. When in reality.....Who cares?
In the end it is important to remember to ....:"Try to be better than yourself".
My workout log for the last 17 years. Every workout that I have done since February of 2007 is listed here. I decided to move my training log from a notebook to online and needed a name for the URL. I was training with mostly Kettlebells back then, thus the name - Kettlbellrob.
1 comment:
nice Rob-I have been compiling a list of goals for 2011 myself and you are so right, just "try to be better than yourself", and, try to be better for yourself :)
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