Roman Simon on Nostr: To progress effectively, you need to understand how biology works. When the body ...

To progress effectively, you need to understand how biology works.

When the body encounters resistance, it feels discomfort and pain. It has two ways to deal with it:

1. If it’s unnecessary and can be avoided, the body avoids it.

2. If it’s important and affects future survival, the body starts changing to become more effective and avoid that pain in the future.

This is how you can use this understanding to grow:

You go to the gym with full conviction that it matters and you want it. You start lifting weights you can’t lift. It brings discomfort — that’s the point. The more discomfort, the stronger the survival signal, and the faster the body responds.

You visualize it: “I absolutely want to push this weight. I need this strength to dominate and conquer my world!” You put in your full effort, but it’s hard — very hard — so you feel intense discomfort or even some pain. Then you rest. You try again. After the session, you go home, eat, and recover.

Now the body calculates: How important was this? How intense was the discomfort? Can it be avoided? If your conviction is strong enough — if you go again in a few days — avoidance becomes impossible. The body must upgrade. And it will — at the speed and intensity the pain demanded.

Always remember: it needs to feel important for your future survival.
Do this for several months and you become a beast.

You can use this principle in other areas, too.