Health & Fitness Is A Skill

Two weekends ago, the Rogue Invitational happened in Scotland, which is a combo CrossFit & Strongman competition. And, as I watched, I found one event really interesting.

In event 7, there was a new movement introduced - the horizontal peg board.

The horizontal peg board is a long board that has holes along it for the athlete to traverse with wooden pegs. So, for this event they had to hang from the pegs and work their way down.

As the event started, you began to see which athletes had some practice, which didn't, and how many of them reacted to learning a new skill as they went on.

The event was 24 minutes long and some athletes struggled all of those 24 minutes. But they tried and tried and tried again. And, they got better every time, regardless of how they did by the end.

The point is that developing any skill takes practice... over and over and over again.

Your health & fitness requires the same thing. It is a skill.

When you're in the gym learning a new movement, it takes patience and reps to continue to get better at it. Some might take longer than others for you, too, which naturally can feel frustrating. But, at the end of the day, the only way to get better at those skills is to continue to practice them. You take inputs, make adjustments, and continue to refine those practices.

When you're at home learning to implement your nutrition or lifestyle habits, those skills also require practice and more reps. The more you figure out where things tend to go south and make adjustments to find what works, the better at those skills you become - be them hitting your water intake or getting more sleep.

The key here is to continue stacking up reps and practice those skills.

Be curious about improving and eventually those added reps become a skill.

Health & fitness is a skill.

If you want to watch the Rogue Invitational Event 7 I was mentioning, click here!