Literally nobody signed up to hear about my fiction writing escapades, but if you’ll indulge me for a moment…
Of late, I have finally started putting pen to paper (or rather, finger to keyboard) to create the first of what will probably be ten or more fantasy books set in a world I began cooking up sometime in 2003.
Anyway.
Writing fiction is very difficult. For reference, it takes me a full day to crack out around 2000 words, whereas I can easily write several times that amount when working on non-fiction, often before I leave to grab Connie from school at 1510.
Why?
Don’t know, just is.
But what I do know is that the supreme difficulty has, until recently, put me off making serious efforts towards completing the first book.
I want to do it, I know I need to do it, I know how to do it… yet… when push comes to shove, I’ve hitherto found any excuse to avoid getting my head down to Do The Work.
To some extent, I still do.
What’s worse is I know plenty well the more I do it, the better I’ll get and the easier it’ll be. But that point when it becomes “easy” or at least “not soul-suckingly difficult” feels so far away from where I am right now that procrastination and barefaced laziness win out more often than I would like.
So it is for a lot of people with training, in my experience.
Certainly when it comes to tackling relatively complicated barbell movements.
And even when they know that mastering barbell squats, pulls, and presses is the key to getting a body that looks and performs how they want it to, the gap between where they are now in terms of competence and confidence and where they need to be feels impossible to bridge…
… so they avoid those movements.
Oh sure, they might do a token set here or there, but never enough to actually move the needle. (Which re-enforces whatever preconceived notions they have about those lifts and their ability to master them.)
Unfortunately, if what I have written applies to you, the only solution is to grit your teeth and practice (most probably starting with an empty bar and then only increasing the load in tiny increments to prevent form breakdown, the cementing of bad habits, and avoidable injury).
Definitely not fun nor exciting.
Nevertheless, it’s necessary to get results commensurate with the time and effort you are already investing into your training.
Something else you will need to get the most bang for your buck are logical training systems and structures to follow (also needed to stop you from falling off the wagon when life throws you curveballs).
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