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Patience, Patience, Patience
Blog | November 23, 2014
“You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up.” – Anne Lamott
When we talk about fitness and wellbeing, it’s not just about breaking a sweat, looking good and eating your vegetables. Okay, well it is to some extent, but really fitness and wellbeing are about redirecting the course of your life toward a healthier, infinitely more satisfying sense of who you are. This, of course, is no easy task. It not only requires diligence and hard work, it requires patience.
Patience is, of course, a term that we’ve all heard half a million times. In practice though it’s a trait that most of us find incredibly difficult to follow unless you happen to be the Dalai Lama in which case there’s no need to read any further.
Much of the dysfunction that occurs in the world of fitness – fad diets, steroids, diet pills, even some eating disorders – can be attributed to an utter lack of patience. We want a quick fix to problems or dilemmas that have been built up over months if not years. This requires us to take a steady, long-term approach in equal, if not greater, measure. As farmers are always quick to point out, you simply can’t rush the harvest. You can only work hard and wait.
Often the notion of patience seems like a boring, yawn-inducing chore. We want what we want and we want it now and there’s no point twiddling our proverbial thumbs right? What we’re forgetting is that patience can be one of our greatest strengths. And we’re in the business of building strength – body, mind, even soul.
“The strongest of all warriors are these two: Time and Patience.” – Leo Tolstoy
It is patience that allows us to steadily build our strength and stamina, to shed unwanted pounds in healthy manner and to endure, even thrive during our hardest days or weeks of workouts. It is patience that gets us through our most difficult times in life and nurtures unforeseen strength and growth that may never occurred had we settled for a shortcut.
Have you been feeling impatient lately with your diet and fitness goals or even with life in general? Share them with me. We’re all in this together.
P.S. I’d like to thank each and everyone one of you for being so wonderfully patient with the transition to the new, improved site!
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Thanks Zuzana. This really helped me…I’ve been working out and eating better for 3 ½ weeks now (only been on Zgym for a week now) and seeing slight weight difference, but i am feeling so much stronger and so much more energy. Your workouts blew my body out of the water compared to the other so-called workouts I was doing. Keep up the good work- we all appreciate it. 🙂 So I’m just trying to keep up with this and each day making sure that I do my daily routine. One workout at a time and one meal at a time just like Justina said. Trying to stay positive and your article helped me out. Thank you!
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Patience… this is a very important word in general. It’s broad. It’s not only applicable for our fitness but for our life too… Well, since we’re talking about fitness, I also had those impatience in me when I was starting to my fitness journey over 20 years ago… especially for women, keep looking or watching what the scale says… aren’t we all been hearing oh, you’re over weight because that’s what the weighing scale says…. it’s annoying, embarrassing and discouraging, mostly for women… but I over come those feeling because my emotion switched to liking the pain from working out. I stopped watching the weighing scale… you know how I measure my changes, I look at the mirror and I usually buy a smaller clothes that will be my goal. If I’m happy what I’m seeing to my reflection then I know what that means… if the smaller clothes I bought a way back then when I tried it on and fits me well, then it made me happy. The most important is, I stopped being impatient because I was in love doing my workout. I kept being consistent. If I missed it, then I feel something wrong… I feel my day is not complete. I believe, if you are consistent doing workout, it becomes your lifestyle…. and I keep putting to my head, there is no magic… there is no instant… you gotta earn it. do you work before you get a result… and Zuzka’s workout is always a great one. When I withdrawn to our old Zgym, I tried to do weight lifting, attended some class for strength, but it’s never ever be the same as what Zuzka’s workout does to me. I went back to her oldies (I kept all those collections from her bodyrock days and I kept my journal), until I found out, her site changed and she’s the owner now so I signed back in… I’ll be forever here now. Z, I hope you’ll be here forever too. Never ending thanks to you. 🙂