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If you’ve read 16 Inspirational Fitness Recollections, you’ll understand the truism of how the tough times sometimes shape us – quite literally!

Those loonnnng walks up the hill in hot and humid weather – where people were literally collapsing all around me – done multiple times a day, and often THREE Times a day when I was really, really hitting it (and using that as my primary workout tool, which was a mistake, but more on that later).

Those “Undertaker” like walks I’ve written about. Slow, deliberate, pushing on as the heat literally WRUNG every last drop of FAT from me …

And of course, the “ironman” comments, and so forth.

And the “Da Xing Xing” comments.

Those workouts were, and always WILL be some of the happiest times of my life, done at a time most people wouldn’t dream of working out, and done in a manner even experienced triathletes might shy away from.

Now there was a point during all this where I was quite literally training to failure EVERY workout – and putting in a day of work after that (for a brief period, I worked a crappy full time job, but in its defence, I could choose my timings, and it was a very easy gig, so …) ..

But really, it was ALL GUNS blazing every workout.

When it was climbing hills, ditto. Pull-ups/handstand pushups – ditto.

Soon, I quit that job (not for reasons related to what I’m mentioning here).

But I continued my workout style, and my results improved even further.

But, bear in mind this.

At a certain point in my life, as a friend said to me “Thats all you do!”

“It’s your life!” he said.

It wasn’t actually. I was putting out books and products and courses, but he didnt believe any of that would amount to anything (go figure huh).

And in accordance with the principle of ALWAYS keeping my cards close to my chest, I never really spoke to him about it.

I DID try and get him to do his own products, courses, but you know how it is. You can take a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink!

Anyway, I backed off on these workouts and the STYLE more to be honest a few months later.

I dont know why (or I didnt then).

But I do now.

Instinctively, my body had had ENOUGH of pushing itself to th elimit.

I needed a break!

And for most people, this sort of training (the train to failure thingy) will kill you within a week.

Really.

With stress at home, stress at your job, the commute, the plague from China and all these other idiotic things that shouldn’t be stressors, really, but are – if you overload that nervous system with INTENSE workouts done to failure – it’s a receipe for disaster.

It might work for a while.

And it may work for longer if “thats all you do”.

But training is NOT and should NOT be the end all and be all of life – and this is even if you’re a pro athlete!

You train to live, not the other way around (hehe, I know).

Now, thats why I keep advocating the idea of ONE 15-20 minute workout per day in the 0 Excuses Fitness System, and doing something DIFFERENT daily.

Not jumping from pillar to post, but doing something different in a SANE manner.

Or, mini workouts spread out throughout the day.

I’m currently doing 100 Hindus throughout the day (believe me, those 3 minute workouts REALLY make you huff and puff!) – and just ONE set of 100 Hindu squats is more than what most experienced gym trainees that squat well over 300 or whatever can do.

Believe me.

40 is about all they can do and they can’t walk for days thereafter!

For most people, less is indeed more if done right.

Last, but not least, it wasn’t a good idea to focus solely on ONE exercise for SO long because I was neglecting the others. Simple. A.k.a that story of MAJOR soreness when I got back to pushups!

But if you’re really trying to improve at something, you may want to focus on that one thing primarily – but not do it to failure.

Those, my friend are the keys to success at not just working out – but life itself!

Best,

Rahul Mookerjee

PS – Be sure and grab the 0 Excuses Fitness System right here – it truly DOES leave you with 0 Excuses NOT to do the thing.