SPARTAN SERIES #225: “DON’T QUIT. YOU’RE ALREADY IN PAIN. YOU’RE ALREADY HURT. GET A REWARD FROM IT!”

I got into this sport to stay in shape. I never dreamed there would be another level beyond my self-imposed set of goals to just be in shape. I self motivated myself. I planned my effort. I knew my end result intuitively. I pushed. I ate right. I did cardio. Results began to appear. I got a coach. I pushed myself mercilessly. Just like the story goes, I sweat, I hurt, I got injured. I was exhausted and the discomfort was, at times, unbearable. But I pushed on just like you do.

Then, if occurred to me that as I/we drag ourselves through these relentless and very hard training sessions it occurred to us that if we raise our game just a notch or two we could accomplish things that most men are not even willing to consider. We raised our vision to see “THE STAGE” as the next level of courage, fear, and reward for doing the hard work. Very simply, we concluded that if we are putting in this Herculean work we ought to reap to goodness for our commitment to being better. The stage became the objective and “THE FIELD OF BATTLE” to put the sculpting of our bodies up for examination and, if we are good enough, a very tangible award…A TROPHY….and THE SATISFACTION that we have done ourselves good. Nobody can ever take our work, our daring move to compete, or the results away from us—ever! This is the message. Don’t workout just to workout. Find a way to parlay the journey into a courageous, moral, definitive victory.

Bottom Line: Never just go through the motions and suffer needlessly. Set your goals so high that they scare you. As we learn to get what we put our minds to we will learn to expect a multitude of benefits that we gather along the way. Things like, personal discipline, personal satisfaction and the best benefit is know that what we do is never a “ONE TRICK PONY.” We do the work, we suffer, we endure because we want to, because it’s the right thing to do, but ultimately we do it to win. We define the “WIN” and we don’t stop until we win. JUST AS WELL GET SOMETHING MORE FOR OUR EFFORTS!