Salvere Blog: Mastery Takes Time

by Salvere Health and Fitness

When starting to learn a new skill or attempting something you never tried, how do you approach your process? It could be learning a new language, something arts and craft, a sport, gardening, cooking or reading books.

Do you approach it with curiosity and excitement? Or a tad scared to not know what to do? Do you map out a plan or take it as it comes?

With anything, mastery takes time. Maybe initially you feel overwhelmed. Maybe you experience rapid growth at the start of the process. Maybe even a little insecure to be in a space where you don’t know what you’re doing. Maybe a mix of all of these. Whatever it feels like to you, know it’s okay.

Mastery takes time. How can you give yourself the patience, grace and appreciation for the journey?

by Lisa Martin, owner and personal trainer at Salvere Health and Fitness. To contact, email lisa@SalvereHealthandFitness.com or call 410.707.0055.

We welcome your thoughts and ideas! Thank you for reading and staying the path to continuous growth opportunities and taking time for curiosity.

Salvere Blog: Sports, Music and Your Workout

by Salvere Health And Fitness

Now, you might be thinking how do the first two things really matter when it comes to exercise?

Ask yourself, if you want to learn a sport, how does it work? Think through the process. Do you walk up and just magically start hitting home runs or become an efficient free throw shooter? Where do you start?

So, you want to play an instrument. Again, where do you start? Do you pick up the violin and play a symphony? Or the guitar or piano or trumpet?

Among other things, we know to be good it requires lots of work, repetitive work. The biggest difference, the first two we encourage and teach about practice and taking things one step at a time. Not advancing to something new until we learn the basics.

With exercise, we often forget to teach and spend time on the process, the learning and mastering the basics. We focus so much on weight loss and rush going through the motions of “high intensity” or “hard” exercises without thought on taking it one step at a time. For example, doing jump squats before mastering a quality squat (without your knees, back and/or hips hurting) or doing mountain climbers when someone can’t hold a quality plank.

We miss the opportunity to experience the journey — Ever find you get bored after a certain period of time with your workouts??

Pay attention to your next workout — do the exercises match your experience and learning so far or did you start a few steps away from the basics? We talk about Yoga as a practice, why don’t we do the same with fitness?

by Lisa Martin, owner and personal trainer at Salvere Health and Fitness. To contact, email Lisa@SalvereHealthAndFitness.com or call 410.707.0055

We welcome your thoughts and ideas! Thank you for reading and taking the steps to become a healthier YOU.

In health,
Your “Live Healthy” Team

Salvere Health and Fitness