Thought of the day. #9
I started weight training at the gym my son attends and works. His body completely transformed since he started attending a strength training program. For over a year I saw the transformation take place.
At home, I use my treadmill regularly and dumbbells occasionally to work my arms a little. Although I have done this consistently I am still not strong enough to complete my goal of doing a pull up. I have a hard time imagining pulling my whole body up but I know it’s possible. After seeing my son’s transformation, I decided to join the strength program. This would be my first time doing strength training with a coach.
The classes are groups of no more than ten. In my first class, everyone was doing the same strengthening workout and I had the modified version. After a couple of reps I said to the coach that I can do what everyone else is doing. He replied that the goal is to start slow and then we assess for next time.
Because I am eager to achieve this goal for real, I felt I could go from zero to a hundred with little preparation.
Eventually he kindly said “trust me. You see the result of your son, it was a process for him. It didn’t happen overnight” I needed to hear that.
His words “trust me” led me to realizing two things, I am not the expert here and he, from experience, knows the process that will get me there. It is important for me to remember that I won’t get to my goals overnight, it is a process. If I go through the process, I will get there.
“Therefore, since we have been justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now stand. And we boast in the hope of the glory of God. Not only so, but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope. And hope does not put us to shame, because God's love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us.” Romans 5:1-5 NIV