Mental Toughness

At times things get frustrating and you think you should be able to do more than you actually can. I found that out these past two workouts.

The team workout was a blast and it was the most fun I have had in awhile on saturdays with a workout. I teamed up with ZachR and he is a huge motivator just being on his team. I don't get the pleasure to workout with him as much as I would like but when I do I enjoy myself. We did:

3 power snatch 135
6 SDHP 115
9 burpees
while the other teammate hangs on a bar
4 rounds each

No time but this one got me mentally. I can usually block things out and focus at the task at hand but the hanging on the bar really tore me apart. I felt like hanging there should not have been that bad and for some reason I could not hang on after the first round. Again I thought I should have been able to do more than I can. The snatch/pull/burpees was not bad I thought I flew through it and did it as fast as I could have. Thanks ZachR for pushing me on!

Today I forgot that I was going to be in Council Tuck land all day, but I was able to find some DB's and a Rower. So I did:

500m Row
30 Burpees
10 Overhead - 70# DB's
1 Round
6:36

WOW! Not pleased and I was actually feeling down after this one. I tried to look for an excuse to why I did so poorly in this workout, was it the Hy-Vee buffet I had before this or was it the few drinks I had the night before for my best friends Moms 50th. Maybe but it was my decisions that made this workout harder than it should have been. I know not to drink and to eat a ton of food before a workout, so I couldn't blame it on anything other than myself. But I'm OK with that, because you make your own decisions.

I feel that the past two workouts made me think way too much about my abilities and like I always say if you put 100% in each workout than you cannot complain just know you left nothing behind. You learn from everything you do and I feel that I am becoming a stronger competitor with each workout. I feel better so enough venting.