Plateaus... fitness people, discuss.
Apr. 18th, 2004 06:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
flexagonFrom last month's issue of Yoga Journal:
A plateau is not necessarily an uninteresting place to be. Unpopulated by obvious goals, it can help us create a state of mind in which we gain experience and tools for internalizing a state of harmony. It can bring qualities of clarity, immediacy, concentration and peace to our practice.
I don't mean to reignite the debate on whether or not it's good to have fitness goals in general, but I am interested in other people's experiences with plateaus, whatever those might be... emotions inspired by? breaking out of? giving up because of? residing peacefully in?
Speaking of not plateauing, I forgot to mention in the last post that (largely because I knew I wasn't going to squat), I pushed my adductors today and did the stack on the adductor machine. A new personal record, and a hundred and ninety pounds of cold steel, baby! I was pleased. My legs have demanded quite a bit of patience from me with regards to strength training, so it's nice to see the occasional response from the little twigs. ;)
A plateau is not necessarily an uninteresting place to be. Unpopulated by obvious goals, it can help us create a state of mind in which we gain experience and tools for internalizing a state of harmony. It can bring qualities of clarity, immediacy, concentration and peace to our practice.
I don't mean to reignite the debate on whether or not it's good to have fitness goals in general, but I am interested in other people's experiences with plateaus, whatever those might be... emotions inspired by? breaking out of? giving up because of? residing peacefully in?
Speaking of not plateauing, I forgot to mention in the last post that (largely because I knew I wasn't going to squat), I pushed my adductors today and did the stack on the adductor machine. A new personal record, and a hundred and ninety pounds of cold steel, baby! I was pleased. My legs have demanded quite a bit of patience from me with regards to strength training, so it's nice to see the occasional response from the little twigs. ;)
