100 Ways Training Benefits Your Life
Progress: There Are No Wasted Reps
Progress is something we all want, especially when it comes to the time, energy and investment in our health, fitness, and well-being.
If you’re consistent – you are always making progress. Even progress you can’t see.
What’s also true is sometimes progress isn’t so obvious or clear to your eyes in the gym.
However, there is always progress being made, always, often in the unseen.
Sometimes this means calling on your health and fitness deposits to recover from a surgery faster… or having more buffer after a serious accident.
Sometimes it means improved labs at the doctor or the ability.
And sometimes it’s as simple as a mood adjustment… or a friendship that was formed that will last a lifetime.
There are no wasted reps.
When you begin to doubt if you’re progressing, getting better, pull up this list…
100 ways training benefits your life.
100 Ways Training Benefits Your Life
- You burn calories at rest easier (metabolism)
- You build physical and internal resilience through discomfort and challenge that you will call on more times than you can count in the future.
- You work out the muscle of your heart, improving cardiovascular health, which keeps you alive and going.
- You improve your self-confidence.
- Clothes fit better.
- Immediate mood improvement.
- It supports your ligaments, tendons, blood flow, circulation, and bone density. Today, tomorrow and future.
- You become more ADAPTABLE in situations.
- You preserve ability in your body you’d otherwise lose faster.
- It’s preventative care in action (accidents, recovery, lungs, ability, you name it…you’re an asset not a hazard)
- It creates a cushion for accidents and the unknown of life.
- Daily life is and feels easier.
- You get better at getting up and down off the floor, preserving independence.
- Stairs, chores and ordinary life tasks and asks feel easier.
- You can carry groceries in one trip.
- You protect your independence as you age.
- You improve balance which helps reduce fall risk. And if you do fall your body is stronger and you can get up.
- You strengthen your grip, one of the best “longevity indicators.”
- You build stronger hips for stability and power.
- You build stronger knees by strengthening what supports them.
- You strengthen your back and don’t live in fear of hurting yourself.
- You have a strong core.
- Improved posture.
- You reduce aches and pains.
- You move with more confidence in your body.
- You breathe better under stress.
- You recover faster from hard days.
- You increase energy throughout the day.
- You sleep more deeply.
- You improve sleep consistency.
- You regulate stress more effectively.
- You feel calmer after training, even if the workout was hard.
- You train your nervous system to handle challenges.
- You increase your tolerance for discomfort, without panic.
- You practice doing hard things on purpose.
- You feel fear – and do it anyway..
- You keep promises to yourself more often – you are more your word.
- You build trust with yourself.
- You feel proud, quietly, deeply, steadily.
- You reduce decision fatigue (“I already did the important or hard thing thing today.”)
- You sharpen focus.
- You improve mental clarity.
- You become less reactive.
- You build patience.
- You become more in tune with your body.
- You become more consistent in other habits.
- You hydrate better because your body asks for it.
- You make better food choices more often.
- You learn what “enough” feels like.
- You learn what “too much” feels like.
- You build body awareness (proprioception).
- You move with better coordination.
- You improve athleticism at any age.
- You feel more playful in your body.
- You keep up with your kids (or grandkids) and animals.
- You improve your language and what you create via your speaking.
- You become less prone to injury in everyday life.
- You improve joint range of motion.
- You strengthen through full ranges – functionality.
- You build stronger feet and ankles.
- You improve your ability to brace and protect your spine.
- You increase lean muscle mass.
- You improve your metabolism.
- You improve insulin sensitivity.
- You reduce health risks over time.
- You get less winded doing play, doing something abrupt.
- You understand macronutrients: protein, carbs and fats better.
- You do better with discomfort (sore, a hard workout, being uncomfortable.)
- You get better at carrying awkward objects.
- You think before you move, more.
- Yardwork feels manageable.
- Snow shoveling feels less risky.
- Travel feels easier, walking, lifting luggage, long days.
- You make better food decisions when traveling or out and about.
- You expand on your kindness.
- You build a lifestyle pattern that supports immunity.
- You increase circulation, your body feels more alive and fluid.
- You reduce stiffness.
- You feel less fragile.
- You feel more durable.
- You feel more confident when you look in the mirror.
- You drink less.
- You feel better in your skin.
- You improve your relationship with effort.
- You stop negotiating with yourself as much.
- You develop discipline that will support you in every other area of life.
- You create a weekly rhythm that anchors your life.
- You’re more reliable.
- You listen better.
- You learn skills you didn’t think you could learn.
- You practice progress and small wins.
- You build courage by showing up imperfectly.
- You improve your cognitive function.
- You develop bonds, friendships, and a supportive environment that uplifts you, no matter what you’re experiencing.
- You feel supported without needing to “be motivated.”
- You become more accepting of others.
- You become more accepting of yourself.
- You become someone your future self thanks.
- You raise your baseline for what “normal” energy feels like.
- You inspire those around you, your inner circle, without trying to or realizing it. And it matters.
One day you’ll need the strength.
Or the stamina.
Or the mental resilience.
Or the community support.
And you’ll realize you didn’t build it that day.
You built it on the ordinary Tuesdays after work.
The imperfect weeks.
The days you showed up anyway.
That’s the gift of training. Of consistency. Of the benefits you, or I can’t quite see. We are always compounding.
There are no wasted reps.
Love you,
Coach Shawn