Does Training Need to Suck for the Best Results?

[ChongLordUno]

Honestly man. Read Pwns new DW write up

Naturals have to train like fuxking animals to get the results they crave. There is no other way around it.

[anna_5588]

@BEAst_in_I

Most training is mundane and “good enough”

Sometimes “mundane” training can really suck- sometimes more mentally than physically, but sucks nonetheless

When I’m following programs, the hardest part is often sticking to the program or having to skip cool workouts because it would affect an upcoming session

[u2pride]

I hate to train, but it is all I need

[TrainForPain]

All you need, good sir, is love. Love is all you need.

[theinneroh]

Thanks for putting that song in my head. Now I will listen to it to get it out of my system.

[dt79]

DUM dum dumdumdum…

[planetcybertron]

@simo74

there an inverse relationship between how much we enjoy our training vs the results that we see.

Yes and No?

I think it’s just a matter of how individuals orient or…define pain in correlation to training. Or enjoyment or lack there of . Some people simply have a reference point, or threshold between not painful, and painful, by which results are going to come going in the painful direction…or just REALLY uncomfortable.

I suppose it could be something akin to, someone’s goodest good feeling, and someone’s baddest bad feeling. On that scale, where do you orient training and results and such according to those feelings? That would be the main question I’d ask myself concerning this topic.

I feel like I’m not coming up with a more optimal metaphor or word, so I’m just gonna stick with the orientation in a general sense. Be it for training or anything that requires change from individual’s perceived level of comfort.

Personally, there isn’t much by way of physical discomfort or pain that could come close to the mental and emotional pain I’ve experienced throughout my life. For me, training just doesn’t suck. It just doesn’t. Not that I’m a masochist or anything, but for me there’s things worse feeling than a grueling workout. It’s not so much that I’d rather an ass whooping training sesh, but in a way I’d rather an ass whooping training sesh than to go….over there.

Some people get to the dark place when approaching deep training sessions, others like myself are just already IN that dark place regardless of what we’re doing. Hence, getting into that deep training takes us OUT of that dark place. I’ve done deep water training myself and I just…I enjoyed it. For a bit I thought I was doing it wrong because I wasn’t miserable. Not the pain aspect per say, but I just enjoy any training set up, no matter how rigorous, or any exercising because to me at least, it’s constructive in a general sense.

My body is gonna go and do whatever my mind tells it to anyways. My perception of it, has nothing to do with my body. It’s all involving how I perceive the situation.

This probably isn’t the best analogy, but bear with me. Say we’ve got a money situation. Two individuals. Both have started working. The type of work doesn’t matter for this analogy’s sake.

One says, “You’ve got to be uncomfortable sometimes to get paid. No one would prefer having to work, but it’s necessary.”

The other says, “I’ve been broke for so long. It’s nice to work and have money and things to buy. I’ve had to scrape by, and sometimes go hungry. I don’t ever wanna struggle like that again. Whatever work I’m doing, I like it. It’s nice to experience this.”

The work in this sense would be training. Discomfort would be synonymous with training discomfort. However that would look. Both are more or less doing the same thing, but they’re coming from, and viewing their situations with different perspectives.

So again I’d say this topic is about…orientation…or perspective. Yeah. Perspective.