Does it matter if you are training or working out? I would say it absolutely matters if you want to see progress towards any specific goal. But if you’re simply just wanting to be active, then it all counts! Let’s dig in to more of how this might impact you.
“I train so that I can…”
How would you complete that sentence?
In my early twenties I would have said something like, “I workout so I can eat pizza.” And let’s be honest, there’s absolutely no shame in that!
But as life went on and I became more focused on running, the script flipped to “I TRAIN so I can PR”.
It still took a few more years of running for my mindset to shift away from a calorie goal or even a clock goal to a larger goal of feeling like I was doing my best. Some days my best is a slow plodding couple of miles, but other days it’s a glorious couple of hours where my body just seems to flow.
Of course, those glorious hours don’t happen by magic, they happen from training!
On one vacation, my husband and I walked over 100 miles around Europe, plus biked 40 miles and I ran another 15 miles. None of that was training, it was just enjoying our lives. BUT, training is what made it possible for us to get up day after day feeling good, excited and wanting to keep going just a bit more.
So…
