Are you ready for failure? August 15, 2007
Posted by hardly Dumbbell, General Cardio, Row, Strength Training, Uncategorized
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Failure. What does this mean to you?
For those involved in fitness, and who’ve attained a certain mastery of a given discipline, failure is something that is required to continue to grow. Failure as in muscular failure, or really hitting your max heart rate until you gotta stop.
One of the things I find fascinating with fitness is the small differences that go into making a new personal best. Lately, my coach has been saying, “Failure is a concept that you need to start getting comfortable with.” By this, he means that in order for us to continue to hit personal bests, we need to be working so hard that we go to the point that we can’t go any more. My suspicion is that he’d really prefer it if we do this all the time…
Warmup:
- 40 pushups
- 4 sets of 10 Bodyweight squats
Workout:
- 5x Dumbbell deadlifts @ 45 lbs - 10 per set
- 6 minutes of pullups - 45
- 2K Row - 7:48 (PB!!!)
- Kettleball Snatches @ 16 kg - 100
- Tabata Sit-ups: 8 sets @ 20 seconds on, 10 seconds off, with the score being your lowest output in any one set - 16 (pb)
- Kettlebell walk w/2 20kg balls, - 2 laps around gym
- 30 pushups
I’m particularly excited about my rowing time because the last time I did this, I was 20 seconds off of my PB, which was highly irritating. I was not happy about that at all, however, my strategy for that row ended up failing me because I had to push too hard, too soon, and I failed before the end of the row (and to be fair, I had not slept well in several nights). In today’s row, I had adopted a different strategy, which included a max push 200M from the end. I came quite close to failure, probably had one or two more good pulls left.
I think I need to reframe ‘failure’ to ‘maximum effort’. Or something else. I’m not ready to admit to failure, but I am ready to admit to ‘going all out’.
Health:
- Date: 08/15/2007
- Weight: 182
- Mood: Normal
- Resting Heart rate: 49
- Sleep Hours: 6.5
- Sleep Pattern: Insufficient
Comments
Interesting… I’d have to agree to change failure to maximum effort. If you put your best out there, it can’t be failure.. because it’s all you’ve got. Failure is only added in when you compare yourself to someone or something. If you do YOUR best, you can’t fail… it’s all you can do!