Train like an athlete 💪
You don’t need to look like an athlete to train like one — but you do need to THINK like one. 🧠 Ten weeks ago, I could do three chin-ups. Recently, I hit 10 reps for the first time! 🥳
How did I get there?
I stopped treating chin-ups like a party trick and started treating them like a skill I was developing for a specific period of time in a purposeful way.
I gave myself a time-boxed goal: 10 weeks to 10 chin-ups, and added a 3x/week chin-up skill drill warm-up routine to my regular workouts to get stronger in this particular movement).
That shift — from movement maintenance to purposeful practice — changed everything!
- 💪 I prioritized pulling first thing
- 🏋️♀️ I trained with intention
- 📈 I tracked my progress
- 🗓️ I showed up and gave my full effort, even when it felt boring or I didn’t progress
- 😴 I actually took rest days, knowing that recovery was actually where I was going to get stronger
Here’s the part we don’t talk about enough:
You don’t build strength by chasing motivation.
You discover discipline by showing up consistently for deliberate practice — the quiet kind that rewires how your body, breath, and brain show up under load.
This is what training like an athlete looks + feels like:
- ✅ You pick a plan + stick to it regardless of how you feel
- 💭(related: you learn that feelings follow action - the more you show up, the better you feel…the more you WANT to show up). 🔄
- ❌ You stop winging it + you start to track data (and let it inform your next steps)
- 🤔(related: you get guidance where you need it, and implement feedback to improve your efforts)
- ❤️🩹 You recover on purpose. and stop over-training
- 🙇♀️ (related: you embrace the fact that you can do ANYTHING but you can’t do EVERYTHING and you get specific about your goal and don’t allow distractions)
- 🗺️ You learn to love the journey over the destination - even the reps that don’t feel impressive.
Turns out the goal wasn’t ten chin-ups. It was to become the kind of person who can do them. 💪