Last year, I bought a strength training program from Canadian bodybuilder Jeff, which made me better in everything.
The program is designed for those who don’t have much time to train – busy people stuff 35 minutes of workout into lunch time. Since you only have time to do one or two working sets, you have to do each set real OK The usual effort does not do with these precious few sets – each set must be of high quality and high intensity.
In the case of strength training, high intensity means you do enough repetitions to make you flirt with muscle failure – the point where the muscles cannot move weight on the body.
The authors insist that people almost always overestimate their normal efforts to get them to this highest point. You may Feel It’s like you’ll fail in the next rep, but if you pass the test, you’ll find that you can actually do two, three, or even four before you actually hit the wall.
I started focusing on these extra reps, which was the whole focus of the workout and immediately started to achieve better results than I had in my years of physical exercise.
The last few delegates are the people who make money – the best rewards for the effort you will get, but many don’t even know that this is possible. My usual parking spot feels like the end of the road, but it is actually the beginning of a hidden, super rewarding field that has a great result.
This discovery makes me wonder how the frequency of life is like this – giving an extra 10-15% extra effort can bring as much reward as possible – and the frequency you don’t know. Imagine you could stay at work for half an hour and your boss would start paying you the usual tax rate ten times, but you didn’t know it was a thing until you almost retired.
Now I’ve done all the sets. I mean more powerful and I no longer need to go to the gym myself because it makes more sense than before. Adding extra work to make the whole thing Easier, Because at this point the extra reward climbs so quickly compared to the extra effort.
I have had similar breakthroughs in meditation before thanks to the teacher’s simple instructions. “When you have the urge to get up and end the meeting, it’s a tip to stay longer. When the urge comes back, maybe get up then. Or maybe stay longer,” she said.
This is another example of hidden realms, just get a lot from it. Now, I’ve been staying on the gift, which usually drives me away from the cushion and stops progressing. By keeping it for at least longer, my practice has been improved permanently and I have obtained a reliable way to keep improving.
At the time, I hadn’t seen the general principle: always be curious about what’s outside your usual stop point. Things that you do regularly make things easier, not harder.
There have to be many such situations because you stop in the wrong place and you will be torn. For whatever reason, you’ve learned to take yourself to a certain point, and it feels like a stop sign: It’s time to slap yourself in the back and go home. You get what you can get from your efforts, and that seems to be it.
However, your usual standard is only where you currently just happen to address, and that standard may be against you. You may have only a few “representations” or any hard work, a huge boost from the rewards. But how do you know?
The only way to know if your usual standards serve you is to go above and see what happens. And each of us has the standards of everything we are used to: enough sleep, good screen time, how much energy you need to put in, proactively in your friendship, how much food you need to eat or small food you need to consume, how much news you need to consume, how much disciplined to comply with family order and cleanliness.
We’ve all solved it somewhere On these and countless other issues, it may be due to inertia rather than principle. Our standards are unlikely to land randomly in their respective sweet spots. For every standard you adopt, there can be a big surge in returns. (Or, maybe you’re doing too much.)
Whenever I use the standard, I find a better standard. If these extra reps completely changed my fitness experience, it might arrive at my desk at 7:30 instead of 8:30, which would completely change my work experience (it has).
When you go beyond the usual stop and life will get better, you have now got a new standard – not only for the effort, but for the results you expect.
The real paradigm move moment is when you discover your new standard (whether for effort or result), which is just someone else’s minimum standard. For you, “extra” efforts may be considered completely necessary for others, and your minimum may be the minimum they accept.
This may be why some people do better with a given effort. It seems that people are getting better to build better results, or enjoy advantages that you can’t achieve. This may be true, but have you really improved your strengths? When the most likely explanation is that they are doing things they don’t do, it is easy to attribute other people’s success to luck, nepotism, or natural talent.
In other words, another person’s standards may be more conducive to realizing their own values than they are currently, and maybe you can make them yours.
All I really do in the gym is discovering people than I found a few years ago. Starting working earlier and giving up online distractions is just revealing what more successful entrepreneurs already know.
The great thing is that standards may be more important than anything else, and they are movable. But you do have to experience a new standard to know if it is better. You are urged to “go on an extra mile”, “train hard” or “sit on a table early” – this won’t show you what you’re waiting for throughout the line.
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