Grit & Grace by Tim McGraw

Author:Tim McGraw
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2019-09-19T00:00:00+00:00

I won’t lie: Growing deeper focus has taken a hell of a resolve because I’m undoing years of thinking that harder and faster always equals better. It might not be the same for you. Perhaps your big lesson is that your body actually has what it takes to deliver more strength, speed, or stamina—if you can just guide your mind to drop the resistance and stop thinking that it can’t. Either way, consider that there may be another angle to view fitness from: It’s not always the difficulty of the workout you do, or how polished it looks in the mirror, or how advanced you are compared to others; it’s the way you engage in your workout and the attitude you bring to it that matters, and maybe matters more than anything else.

I can lose my A-game attitude in a heartbeat, just like you can. I get off rhythm when I’m on the road for a while then off it all of a sudden, or when things at home need tending to, like someone I love being sick or one of my girls stepping into a new phase of life and needing extra dad-help. So I’ve developed a bag of tricks to dip into at the first sign of flagging. Sometimes I’ll use them to just make it through the first twelve minutes of a workout so I can build all-important momentum. Other times they’re what I use to make it through the third round of a circuit, when everything seems much harder than in the first two rounds, or to maintain my starting pace in the last five laps of a fifty-lap swim. Whatever the task at hand, dropping into deep focus is a practice of making it count. If something’s worth doing and spending your precious time on, you might as well get the most out of it. It’ll give a turbocharge to whatever you do—from the simplest exercise to the most complex.

8 Tactics to Make Your Workout Count

1. ADJUST YOUR ATTITUDE. If I’m ever getting slack, I repeat the credo It’s easier to keep fit than get fit. And that’s not just a catchphrase. Anytime I’ve gotten injured or taken too much time off, it’s a lot more work to get back on the wagon than it would have been to just stay on it. I’ve learned to embrace the spike of fear I feel around stopping for too long; it kicks in when I’m getting complacent to remind me I’ve put so much work into getting where I am that losing it will be like going back to the beginning. It does the job of steering me straight. That said, once I start exercising, all negative self-talk is banned; that’s shown to impede performance. Telling yourself you suck at what you’re doing is like spraying an extinguisher on your drive. It kills the passion to try harder.

2. DO A RUN-THROUGH. I seal in my workout plan with a short visualization before sleeping. The whole nine yards,

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