These are the reasons why we’re afraid to lift heavy:

One, Uncertainty and Doubt — You’re not sure if you can do it

Or Two, it’s intimidating because u have to confront your weakness, that means you’re afraid to fail.

Here’s what I’ve been doing to get over this hurdle

1. Slowly work up to it, by increasing the weight little by little

Or 2. I just give it a shot, most the time I fail because it’s too heavy, that gives me an idea of my limitation and weaknesses, therefore I know what to improve.

On the other hand, if I succeed, great! I didnt’ know I was that strong, time to up the weights

And of course you can apply this outside of the gym.

Next time you face a challenging problem, could be at work or life in general

• Just think of it like a stack of heavy weight, find a way to split the problems into little problem and tackle them little by little

• Or two just head on and solve the problem, and if you fail, no big deal, go back and try the first method.

Just because something is intimidating doesn’t mean you can’t do it 😀

inspo:

Confronting our weaknesses

confronting out limitations

When we get under the bar

under the heavy weights