Formosa Fitness

Few people really know what it's like to really push the body hard. For most folks, they do an exercise (often with poor form already which saps their results) until it gets a little uncomfortable and then they want to take a break. Welcome to the middle of no where. When you train like this, the middle of no where is where you will stay.

For some folks, I push form harder at first. It's hard to get good results without it. I really hate to see poor performed exercises done at lightning speed. That is a total waste of time. The point of what we're doing isn't to hump the floor when doing pushups, for example, but to use the pushup motion to train the body. Training the body is the whole point. Numbers are just numbers. They are irrelevant to a large extent. 100 poorly performed pushups is nothing to brag about.

For other folks who have decent form already, I let the form slip a little as they get tired. These folks know what they're doing. If form degrades a little due to fatigue, that's okay.

Regardless of the group you're in, taking a break when you're just a little uncomfortable does nothing. You have to PUSH past those plateaus. You have to move INTO your discomfort zone. THAT is where the results lie.

And most people haven't experienced this before. Mainstream fitness shields them from that need. Our comfort-loving lifestyles shields us from that, as well.

So in the end, mental blocks are what prevent us from getting results. Tell the "I can't do this" part of your brain to shut up and you'll find you can do a lot more than you think.