Sometimes you wake up and just don’t want to move. Maybe it’s because of a restless sleep, hard work week or just plain not feeling it. This is where the true athlete in you should come out. You already know when you get to the gym chances are your workout isn’t going to be up to its normal standard, you may even have to cut it short. But you do it anyway, you crawl out of bed, go through all your pre-workout routines, maybe add a Rockstar or a Starbucks on your way to the gym. Well if that is you, you rock. You just separated yourself from the common gym rat and joined the real athletes. You did it anyway, even when you didn’t feel like it, even knowing it maybe a substandard workout, but you got there and give it your all. I bet you felt a whole lot better for working out instead of skipping the day.
I want to be sure you understand that working out when your just not into it, tired or sore is completely different then showing up sick, DON”T EVER WORKOUT SICK, it’s just not fair to anyone else around you at the gym. Just stay home and rest and get better. But for the rest of the time, working out many times is all mental and that can be the biggest challenge and biggest accomplishment in your fitness program and is what makes you a real athlete.
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