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🌳 The Law Of 'The Pain Period'

Arnold Schwarzenegger (a world-renowned body-builder) always used to talk about what he called “the pain period.” A term he refers to when working out meaning you have to go through the pain and struggle to grow.

May 29, 2023

QUOTE OF THE DAY

“The last three or four reps is what makes the muscle grow. This area of pain divides the champion from someone else who is not a champion. That’s what most people lack, having the guts to go on and just say they’ll go through the pain no matter what happens.”

Arnold Schwarzeneggerer

THE LAW OF PAIN

Arnold Schwarzenegger (a world-renowned body-builder) always used to talk about what he called “the pain period.” A term he refers to when working out meaning you have to go through the pain and struggle to grow.

“Look, nobody is building any muscle on the first rep, the second rep, or even on the ninth. Once you hit the wall on, say the tenth rep, and you go five more, that’s when you’ll start to grow! Given proper recovery afterwards, your muscles will grow back bigger and stronger.”

It’s the same in all areas of life. Move through the pain period. Look for the pain, and push past your perceived limits. The pain ends, and then the pleasure seeps in
but only if you make it to the other side.

Lean into the pain that comes up when you push past where you were before. That’s where the growth comes from. You’re forcing your body and mind and spirit to adapt to a stress that you’ve never placed upon it before.

The difficult thing is to know when you’ve entered a pain period and haven’t just turned in the wrong direction. Some pain periods are disguised as just pure discomfort and annoyance such as working a job that you don’t want to work in order to build up your business that you know will become the next big thing. So it isn’t always the case that you have to enter the ‘pain period’ and then it will stop, sometimes you have to endure it for a certain period of time to make the reward bigger.

ACTIONABLE NEXT STEPS:

Don’t be afraid to enter the ‘pain period’. It’s sure scary because you won’t like it and it’s not something that you’ll want to do but you’ll be better off for it. Similar to how failure is part of the process, pain is too.

TAKEAWAYS:

There’s a ‘pain period’ in all aspects of life. It’s your job to assess it and get through it.

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