Here’s How To Soak Up The Most From All The Sweat In Your Lifetime.

What if you could remember your workouts so well that you never needed to write them down?

I mean…

What if you could ascribe your training sessions to your long-term memory without every opening up Evernote or an old-fashioned notebook?

No, really…

What if you could become the living, breathing, walking, organic reflection of your hard work?

Workouts and beyond, you can. You already are.

It just requires a little more of your focus and attention.

Objective-style journaling — writing down the x’s and o’s of a workout plan and reporting the sets reps, weights, tempos, etc. keeps you on pace and in line for proper progressions. It helps you safely and smartly become a stronger human being.

Deep noticing, presence, and somatic awareness do what writing in a journal cannot for you: it keeps you awake to the ever-expanding possibilities of your body.

Tracking your progress mathematically is imporant. Don’t get me wrong. But it will not spiritually inform your cells that a positive evolution of YOU is occurring.

Noticing…
-during a boxing workout, how your biceps feel as they tear and re-build
-during a hard run, how your lungs feel as they go on the turbulent journey of huffing, puffing, searing, then re-salivating
-during a long swim, how your brain feels as it transforms red flags of fear (of drowning, of running out of oxygen, etc.) to green flags of endurance and confidence

Being fully present to…
-the temperature, cadence, breadth, depth, and pathway of air as it moves in and out of your body
-the texture of your environment and the sensations it stokes on your skin, eyes, hands, and feet
-the ebbing and flowing, shrinking and growing of your perception of time

Together, this noticing and purposeful presence…choosing to place your attention fully in each moment and what is being experienced, makes you a witness to what/who you are becoming.

And that is a beautiful phenomenon.

Tapping into higher consciousness, going deeper into the spiral of awareness as you work out and work in with your pineal gland and turn mere motion into a spiritual awakening…is a beautiful phenomenon.

It is a metaphysical phenomenon that does not require a pen and paper; your body is the journal, the record, the scorekeeper, the somatic secretary of your life — in workouts and in any type of work, journey, challenge, experience you enter.

Your soma (body) will remember the times you overcame immense burning to do a few more reps on the squat.

Your soma will remember the times you stretched your range of motion in a lunge three inches deeper than you ever had before (likely since childhood) and the win that announced to your brain.

Your soma will remember the huffs and puffs your lungs endured to finish a hard run.

Simplified, we can call this “muscle memory.”

But it goes much deeper.

On a fascial level (the inter-web of tissues that connect literally all of your pieces — bones, tendons, ligaments, muscles, organs), your fascia — quite a pliable organism, remembers the shapes you took.

On a mental level, your mind (the brain in action) remembers the new heights, new distances, new triumphant spirit you chose to embody.

On a heart level, your precious chambers of unconditional love remember the moments you chose courage over cowering, the moments you chose exploring instead of exiting, the moments you chose resilience rather than retreat.

I am so grateful that the body remembers these moments.

I want you to be able to experience that, too.

I want you to actively engage your power to focus your attention, on what you are feeling, sensing, thinking, being, and ultimately becoming.

In workouts and beyond, choosing to be the sober witness to your life’s journey will be the best decision you ever make.

You will be reading the book of your own life’s story, within each page soaked a deep remembrance of the emotion that each bullet of sweat, surge of silliness, gush of gratitude, and hush of harried voices you experienced to become who you are as you reflect. Each page somatically inscribed with your deep experiences and all of the chapters encased by your conscious decision to prescribe to each moment, Love.

You will be able to reflect back on your life and all of your experiences with such deeper visceral recollection, appreciation, remembering, celebrating, knowing…really knowing yourself, for who you were and who you became, if you dare to do so.

With Loving Awareness,

Coach Abby

Two books that relate to these topics beautifully: