Discipline is Effort
FEBRUARY 19, 2021 | WORDS BY GABE YANEZ
If you follow NCFIT on social media (if you don’t, do yourself a favor and click here), you may have noticed the phrase Effort Over Everything used in a lot of our content. Effort is the backbone of our company culture and it is a value we work to exemplify with every single thing we do.
When it comes to training though, effort is something I see oftentimes get misconstrued.
No pain no gain
Fran Lung
Ripped hands
Debilitating DOMS
Finishing a workout on your back, dizzy, confused, and with a light metallic taste in the back of your raw throat. Effort meant you had to finish a workout feeling completely destroyed or as me and my friends used to say—go into orbit.
That is effort, right? Wrong.
Effort is having the discipline to take care of your body and manage stress appropriately so that you foster a healthy relationship with exercise. This is how you improve your health and your fitness simultaneously. This is effort.
Does that mean that every so often you shouldn’t hit a workout that straps you onto a rocket and sends you into orbit to collect space berries on Jupiter? Absolutely not. That is the gut check we all need sometimes, but not every time.
For some of us, taking a rest day isn’t easy. Laying off an injury long enough for it to fully heal isn’t easy. Tackling a “for quality” workout with an actual focus on quality regardless of what the person next to you is doing isn’t easy.
Well, effort is what it takes to do those things when they aren’t easy. Having that discipline is how you show effort.
