Your body will change when it is ready to.
You don’t have a say in when your goal weight is reached.
You don’t get to determine on which Monday you will hit your next bench PR.
So don’t get upset when you weigh in .7 pounds heavier than you did last week.
Don’t become frustrated when you can barely hit 6 reps with a weight that just last week you took to 8.
Your body doesn’t make sense.
And even worse, your body is the one in control.
So be prepared to be confused with what’s going on with your fitness.
Be prepared to be disappointed, often.
That is - if you’re too wrapped up in the results you are being presented.
If you’re putting in more effort tracking your daily weigh-ins than you are figuring out how you can continue compiling more and more days of what you have been doing, you’re focused on the wrong thing.
Because chances are, what you have been doing - are the right things.
You just have to do those ‘right things’ for longer.
(PLOT TWIST)
It should bring you comfort to know that you actually are in control. You’re just not in control the way you’d like to be.
You indirectly are in control of the results you desire.
You can’t walk into the gym on any random day and add 20lbs to your bench.
But you can walk into the gym, day after day, and put in the work that is necessary to add 20lbs to your bench.
Focus on your daily habits and actions, not the results.
What you do day after day is what brings the results along for the ride.
Be disciplined to not feed off of results, feed off the process.