It Ain't Always Gotta Be That Serious

July 25, 2025

I think one thing that I probably miss out quite often on this is that we understand that, yes, we want our training to be at a greater level of force and greater level of stimulus than our game or performance is, right? 

But if that's the only thing we talk about and, like, it can get to the point where just everything feels super heavy, everything feels super difficult, and it always feels like you're trying to fight against this mountain-type thing of work that you have to do. And so I do want to make a note that the perception or the perspective that you view all this work that we do through matters a ton. Like if you view it as extremely stressful, you view it as extremely hard.

Or you view it as something that you have to like fight against— that's going to literally make your body make you feel heavier, versus if you view it as more of like an opportunity and view it as more of something that is grading something for yourself that you actually want, you can do the exact same movement with two different perspectives. One, like this, is extremely tough. It's very hard. I don't want to do it. And one, in the other, would be like, this is something that I want to do. I can actually feel light during this. I can actually feel good while doing this. It doesn't have to be that hard and stressful. You can view the same exercise.

Exercise from two different perspectives, and it's going to change how your body actually responds to the exercise as well as how your body feels. And so, start to pay attention to what is the perspective or what is the perception that you have. Of what you're doing, are you looking at it as more of an opportunity? 

Something that's more like literally— it could just be something that's fun and it's a little bit crazy, but it's fun because it's so crazy or is it just like this heavy load of things that you feel like you have to get done in that just the thought of it is weighing you down more than the actual doingness of it itself? Start to pay attention to your perspective of your perception. And remember the opportunity that you have, the fun that it can be. And also that  it doesn't have to be that serious all the time.