The hardest lesson I had to learn about fitness was learning not to group everyone into the same box

 

The hardest lesson i had to learn about fitness was learning 𝐧𝐨𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐠𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐩 everyone 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐛𝐨𝐱.  And this one was a huge one!  And who did I learn this lesson from?  ⁣⁣

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𝐌𝐘 𝗪𝐈𝐅𝐄!⁣⁣

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𝘐𝘯 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘵, 𝘐 𝘵𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘬 𝘪𝘵’𝘴 𝘴𝘢𝘧𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘴𝘢𝘺 𝘐’𝘷𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘢 𝘭𝘰𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘭𝘪𝘧𝘦 𝘭𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘩𝘦𝘳!  ⁣⁣

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She probably wouldn’t call it lessons though, she’d call it 𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠.  Which leads to a saying that she says all the time, ⁣⁣

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“𝘚𝘩𝘦’𝘭𝘭 𝘯𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘭𝘦𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘮𝘦 𝘣𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘦𝘴𝘯’𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘵𝘪𝘮𝘦 𝘰𝘳 𝘱𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘵𝘰 𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯 𝘢𝘯𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘦!  😂”⁣⁣

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Anyway back the lesson learned!  ⁣⁣

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We would workout together and I would get annoyed when she didn’t do something the way I wanted, or lift what I knew she could.  𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐬, 𝐈 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐛𝐚𝐬𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐛𝐞𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐚𝐧 𝐚𝐬𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐚𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐨.  𝐀𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝐦𝐞 𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐭!  😳⁣⁣

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She was giving it everything she had and she had different goals than I did.  For the longest time we would eat the exact same way too, but guess what?  𝘞𝘩𝘢𝘵 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘮𝘦 𝘥𝘪𝘥𝘯’𝘵 𝘯𝘦𝘤𝘦𝘴𝘴𝘢𝘳𝘪𝘭𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘩𝘦𝘳.  ⁣⁣

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That’s not saying that we don’t have dinner together, because we do, but throughout the day, we eat different things and different amounts because we are different people.  𝐎𝐮𝐫 𝐛𝐨𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐨𝐮𝐫 𝐠𝐨𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐚𝐬 𝐰𝐞𝐥𝐥.⁣⁣

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𝘌𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘥𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘦𝘳𝘦𝘯𝘵, 𝘸𝘩𝘪𝘤𝘩 𝘪𝘴 𝘸𝘩𝘺 𝘸𝘦 𝘴𝘩𝘰𝘶𝘭𝘥𝘯’𝘵 𝘤𝘰𝘮𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘴𝘰𝘮𝘦𝘰𝘯𝘦 𝘦𝘭𝘴𝘦’𝘴 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘶𝘭𝘵𝘴 𝘵𝘰 𝘰𝘶𝘳𝘴.  ⁣⁣

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Not only is their body different but their life stresses are going to be different which affects our strategy also.⁣⁣

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𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭𝐬 𝐰𝐡𝐲 𝐈 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐨𝐚𝐜𝐡 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐲 𝐜𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐚 𝐜𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦 𝐭𝐨 𝐚 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐟𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐦!⁣