Rare Golden Owl

Stop worrying about not being where you want to be right now.

The only people who have been entirely unaffected by gym closures over the past 3-6 months are those of us who have a gym set up at home. If this is you, gyms shutting down never mattered to you - your gym is at home.

For the rest of us, we have had to adapt our training.

Some of us have enjoyed the luxury of having equipment to train with at home. Some of us have had to do bodyweight only workouts. Some of us have not worked out at all.

All of these scenarios are okay, and they are all examples of us doing what we can to get by until our gym can reopen again.

Understand what you are working with and be realistic about where you are.

You haven’t had the things you typically rely upon to produce your desired training results.

You haven’t had weights.

You haven’t had your trainer/coach.

You haven’t had your training partners.

You haven’t had a gym atmosphere to motivate you.

If you’ve gone backward, it’s okay. So have I and many others. That’s just temporary.

If you’ve done enough just to minimize the amount that you’ve gone backward, you’ve done better than me and many others.

If you’ve maintained your level of fitness, you’re in a great spot, right in position to get back to pushing ahead again once things become a bit more normal.

If you’ve made any kind of progress at all, you’re a rare golden owl.

Wherever you’re at today, don’t be so hard on yourself. This will all be a blink of an eye over the course of your training career.