Quantity and Quality

 Going to the gym has made me re-learn the values of quantity and quality. The fundamental balance you need to have between the two. 

If you do 100 push ups every day, but you barely bend your elbows at all, then you did 0 push ups. If you do proper form and technique for 5 push ups for the day; you have only done 5 push ups. Both forms lack moving forward and future growth. Neither become better at doing 100 proper push ups in a day. This way of practice is a very unbalance form of quantity and quality. 

We always tend to obsess over quantity or quality. The thought process of quantity is  I need to meet my numbers for today so I will sacrifice quality because it makes it easier to get the numbers. The other side quality we focus so much for high quality push up we are unable to achieve our numbers, but at least they were good push ups. 

Quantity and quality hold the same equal importance for me. You need quantity to build the muscle that was not there and you need the quality to make the form most efficient. If your doing push ups and your thighs are the ones in pain after push ups, then either there is a separate issue ,or weaken muscles never worked before, or really bad form.  

I learned that I was doing bad form in my exercise lifting weight. I was trying to go over what I could handle in bad form. I had to reduce the weight I was using, and focused on learning to achieve quality with quantity. I needed to do 15  repetitions rather then 5 repetitions. I used the 15 to develop the quality. I paid attention the higher amounts of doing the exercise to see the flaws and improve. 

So if one day I want to achieve doing 100 push ups in a day that are high quality, then I will need to put in the quantity and remain mindful while building my quality. Currently on the ground I can do 3 push ups. On the wall I can do 30 push ups. I have to maintain the best quality for when doing wall or floor. So I can build up the muscles. I do the walls for quantity and floor for quality. They both serve a great purpose for me and I hope to continue making progress while trying to maintain the balance.  It is not easy it is hard, but worth every sweat and tear. 

Sifu Langner