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Episode 2969:
Ross Enamait explores how patience is an underrated but essential trait for achieving long-term goals, particularly in training and personal growth. Through real-life examples and insights, he shows how persistence over time consistently outperforms shortcuts and impulsive action.
Read along with the original article(s) here: https://rosstraining.com/blog/the-power-of-patience/
Quotes to ponder:
"Unfortunately, patience is a trait that’s often overlooked in today’s fast-paced world."
"You don’t need to change everything in a day, week, or even a month. Keep chipping away and you’ll eventually get where you want to go."
"I’ve been training for almost 30 years and I’m still learning, improving, and evolving."
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[00:01:17] Hello there, happy Tuesday. Welcome to another edition of Optimal Health Daily, where I read some of the best blogs covering health and fitness, just like an audiobook. Now today's a continuation from yesterday, so if you're new here, you'll probably want to hear yesterday's episode first. And with that, let's get to Part 2 of the post and continue optimizing your life. The Power of Patience, Part 2 by Ross Enemite of RossTraining.com
[00:01:47] Injury and Delayed Results Injury and delayed results are two close relatives to impatience. An impatient athlete looks for shortcuts that do not exist. He'll often bite off more than he can chew. Performance of a one-armed chin-up is a perfect example. If you rush into this exercise, you can almost guarantee elbow pain. Adaptation takes time, particularly when dealing with tendons and ligaments. This exercise isn't one that you'll master in a week or two.
[00:02:14] Expect several months at minimum, and don't be surprised if it takes more than a year. Without patience, you'll never accomplish the feat. You'll either become distracted due to the slow rate of improvement, or you'll rush the process and be forced to opt out because of pain. The only way to accomplish the feat, or any challenging feat, is with an equal dose of hard work and patience. Delayed results are also related to impatience. This problem often impedes highly motivated athletes.
[00:02:42] They are overambitious and don't believe in quality over quantity. More work is their solution to any problem or challenge. Unfortunately, impatience overrules ambition. Strength athletes often suffer from this problem. Rest days and restoration are considered wasted time. In the mind of the impatient, why waste time with rest or restoration when we could lift instead? The impatient has no time for recovery and restoration. It doesn't feel hard, so it can't be doing anything, right? Wrong.
[00:03:11] If you lift weights today, don't expect any major strength gains tomorrow. Patience and time are both critical to tissue repair and growth. Active means of restoration and recovery must not be overlooked. No one is denying the importance of hard work, but hard work alone is not enough. Think of yourself lifting a maximal load. If you attempt subsequent sets without rest, you will not lift anywhere near your true max. Flex. Adequate rest is needed between sets when working with near maximal loads.
[00:03:39] If you are impatient and rush, your strength workout will suffer. The importance of rest also applies to the training plan as a whole. If adequate rest is not provided between maximal strength workouts, you can guarantee the eventual onset of delayed results. It should come as no surprise that restoration is an integral part of the popular conjugate sequence system. Restoration allows the body to supercompensate from past work. Exploitation of a delayed training effect is the basis of the system.
[00:04:09] If time is never invested in restorative work, supercompensation will never occur. Unfortunately, inpatient athletes often underestimate the importance of restoration and proper cycling of loading, increased and decreased. These athletes often make gains early on, but then plateau, and are unable to work their way out of the rut. Their problem isn't related to work ethic. Impatience undermines their intensity. My own story.
[00:04:35] Personally, I spend much less time training for pure strength than many, yet am far stronger than many of those who spend far more time training strength. It's a simple case of quality over quantity, but it wasn't always this way. I can tell you about patience and impatience, as I've lived at both ends of the spectrum. For much of my life, I was everything but patient. As a youngster, I was ignorant. My work was sporadic and random. Now that I've grown older and wiser, I consider patience to be my greatest attribute.
[00:05:04] Unfortunately for me, it took a long time to recognize the importance of patience. I'm now in my 30s and far more capable than I ever was in my teens and early 20s. My genetics didn't change, but everything else did. In recent years, I've accomplished exercise goals that were at one time considered impossible by me. My greatest change was learning to be patient when tackling a new challenge. At this stage in my life, if I set out to do something, I will get it done. It's only a matter of time. I always knew that patience was important,
[00:05:33] but knowing is only half the battle. Without action, knowledge is useless. Just think of the countless training books that are sold today. The information is there for the public to read. It isn't classified. Anyone can read and learn. Unfortunately, knowing and doing are not the same. Many athletes simply don't have the patience to put their knowledge into practice. I made this mistake for many years. I didn't have time for patience and struggled for years because of it. Final thoughts.
[00:06:02] As a young fighter, I broke my hand inside the ring. I was impatient and never gave myself time to heal. I returned to action too soon. I broke the hand again, again, and again. It was an ongoing problem that could have been entirely avoided with patience. My impatience not only delayed my athletic development, but also led to repeated injury. Now that I'm older, I can't think of any training-related injuries that I've endured in the last 10 years. I'm far more capable physically
[00:06:30] and live without pain or injury. If there's one thing that you can take from this article, I hope that you can learn from my mistakes. Continue training with intensity, but recognize the importance of patience. There will be times when it seems like progress is moving at a snail's pace, but giving up on the goal entirely is not the solution. After all, who said that life was supposed to be easy? If you want something, be prepared to pay the price, which means preparing for a long and difficult journey.
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[00:09:23] And sure enough, that was the exact moment when I threw my back out. And I was out of commission for two to three weeks. Now, I probably should have waited longer to get back into deadlifting, but I didn't listen. And so sure enough, I went back to it and then re-injured it. So I get it. We've all experienced impatience at some point, whether it's again, strength training or looking a certain way or even dieting, weight loss. We can tend to get impatient because yoga doesn't seem to be helping fast enough or journaling,
[00:09:53] there doesn't seem to be any positive effects that I'm experiencing. But when we look at the studies, we find that if you keep at those things, sure enough, they start to work. And I love when Ross said that knowledge isn't necessarily power. And to paraphrase Tony Robbins, he basically said something very similar. Knowledge isn't power. Action is power. You're probably getting a lot of knowledge by listening to this podcast. But do I actually take action on the things I'm hearing?
[00:10:22] That's something else entirely, right? So hopefully you've been motivated to take that first step and move towards your goal. But as you do that, have patience with yourself. And as I said yesterday, it may actually help you save time and save money and heartache in the long run. All right, that'll do it for today. Thank you for listening every day. Thank you for being a subscriber. I'll be back here tomorrow, as always, with another post. So I'll see you there, where optimal life awaits.