The Goal Isn't To Do More
I was looking at video of one of my lifters recently, focusing intensely on just one single technical cue for her main movement of the day.
What stands out about this is that we didn't try to fix five things at once. We picked one focal point and directed all her available capacity toward doing that single thing exceptionally well.
In lifting - and in behavior change - trying to fix everything at once usually means doing nothing well. You split your focus across five different cues, your nervous system gets overwhelmed, and the main goal gets lost.
It’s easy to look at health or training and stack up a list of shoulds:
I should train more.
I should fix my mobility.
I should hit 10k steps.
I should meal prep every Sunday.
Before you know it, taking care of yourself is a chaotic full-time job. But every new focus has a cost.
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