So I’ve put on too heavy weights. And learned the hard way, that you can lift a lot more if you do it wrong. So I’ve suffered a couple of injuries. But that’s not the big loss. That would be the fact that I’ve worked out for many years without learning a really valuable thing about weight training. That if you lift the right weight properly, and instead of lifting as heavy as possible, you try to be as present as possible, do the lift the correct way, feel the body and have real contact with the muscles that are doing the exercise, the workout will be both more effective, more pleasurable and less painful. I’ve also discovered that I feel less worn-out after a workout if I do it this way.
In other words, I needed to learn to see the ego in my training and make it a priority to drop it.
