I have recently started to go to a gym. I am now in the process of slowly regaining the strength I have lost. I am not a big gym goer, if anything I am normally super bored in them. I have always been told that if you go enough times consistently for a long period of time I will start feeling a sense of loss on the days I don't go to the gym. A sense of euphoria will start to be felt every time I would go. That's the goal I am aiming for.
My physio actually told me I am approaching this all wrong. If I approach it with the attitude it is going to be boring then it will be. Then a light bulb went off in my head before he finished what he was about to tell me. Going to the gym and repeating the same moves over and over again. Making sure I am using proper technique. Hard work and discipline, the very meaning of kung fu. I have to transport the teaching form kung fu to the gym. Everything I do at the gym is an opportunity to better myself. Focus on what the muscle is doing instead of focusing on wanting to leave; change my intent.
This going to the gym for me will be a bigger challenge to me in more ways than one; mentally and physically. The biggest hurdle for me will be the attitude. I have drastically changed my attitude before, and it was for kung fu. I saw nothing but hoops to jump through at kung fu. Then 3 years later I saw them as a doorway to greatly improve myself mentally and physically. Now I must use that attitude from kung fu and install it to my gym workouts.
It will not be easy, but nothing worth having ever is.
Sifu Langner
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