Training beyond your limit

Training gets stagnant and you need to push beyond your limit to reach the next level. However, going to the next level requires breaking down some limitations. Breaking into the next level requires you to walk through fear. It's scary because you've never gone to this level. But it's necessary to reach new heights. It's necessary because it's how growth takes place.

Reaching the next level
The next level is out there beyond your limit. When it comes to strength training your body can do it but have you given your mind the permission to succeed? Have you thought about breaking through? Have you thought about reaching beyond? It's first a mindset. You think about the next level but wonder if you can do it.

Preparing for the next level
Your training should prepare you to take it to the next level. You might have to do things that are uncomfortable such as more reps in a set. You might have to do sets of 5 or 6 rep snatches which might not make too much sense physically but that's not what's it about. Can you mentally go there? Can you imagine completing that many reps? Are you psychologically prepared to handle the loads?

Walking through fear
Going to the next level requires to walk through fear. Because going to a place you've never been to can be scary but it's only because you've never been to the unknown. It's the unknown that scares you. We are so desperate to be certain about life. Having certainty is a psychological need because we know what is on the other side. The unknown is scary but it paralyzes you. Fear prevents you from knowing what's on the other side.

All great expeditions required the travelers to venture into the unknown. Such as traveling into the American West, or having astronauts venture into space. It's having the courage to step into the unknown and discover a new world.

Going to the next level is a major step into the right decision. As a rule of thumb, whenever and wherever you feel fear before venturing into uncharted waters, that is your sign to go out into that path. Because that is the place of the greatest growth...the greatest strength is achieved in the unknown.

Coach Cano