So, there’s something you’ve got to understand about training, it is not just the body that’s at work, there’s an integration of mind, spirit and body at play. There’s a threshold that you have to cross in order to access the power of the mind and the spirit in your training. Training is a transformative process that makes you a stronger version of yourself instantly, if you cross this threshold. Most people are scared to cross this threshold.
When you cross that threshold you’re breaking through a fortress and within that fortress there are jewels of untold value that will instantly turn you into a brand new person; a type of person that wherever you go people will know you’re not the same. People will recognize the new found power in you simply by approaching training from the spiritual perspective. That power is only found beyond the threshold, that power that’s within that fortress, that transforms you instantly, that makes you a stronger version of yourself that everyone sees, knows, respects, can appreciate it is found in one place. There’s a single opportunity in your workout to access this gate, to move through and transcend yourself.
It’s found in the last rep, it’s called the transcendent rep.
Everything that you’ve done up until this point leads to this single sweet spot, and it is here you grow stronger, it is here that champions are born, it is here that you become the strongest version of yourself. Everything else is just a warm up.
You can’t be in the flesh when you approach that transcendent rep, that last rep that your body doesn’t want to do but your mind and your spirit have already done, the body just hasn’t lined up yet. But when you cross that threshold, not only does you body grow stronger because you did that last rep, but there’s an alignment, a unity that happens between your body, your mind and your spirit; only, when you’re courageous enough to cross that threshold, that transcendent rep.
When you put every ounce of effort, energy, commitment, discipline into executing that last rep, you’ll transcend and you will be born again, you become a brand new person, you’re resurrected in strength and everywhere you go from there on out, people will recognize that there’s a new found power within you. They can’t see you the same way, they won’t talk to you the same way, they won’t feel you the same way because you’re brand new. You will breathe different, you will walk different, the look in your eyes will be brand new, stronger, more direct, more focused, more confident.
They will all know, there is a brand new, stronger you.
Tran-scend-ent rep
/tran’sendent/ /rep/ (noun) – an exercise repetition taken beyond physical exhaustion, with the purpose of gaining a form of mental and spiritual strength found only in self transcendence.
Elliott Hulse
