One of the best predictors of success is your ability to withstand discomfort, yet most people possess a threshold for painful challenges is embarrassingly low. They have a hard time dealing with emotional and physical pain such as rejection, frustration, or even a hard workout. Instead of pushing themselves past the pain, they give up and often fall short of reaching their most ambitious goals.
Having a low tolerance for pain will hold you back in life and in your training. It makes you more likely to constantly quit, preventing you from building the physique you want. This pattern of being overly soft is prevalent in our society and has worsened since the COVID-19 pandemic started. If your threshold for pain continues to weaken, you will become vulnerable to falling apart.
If this sounds like you, it is crucial that you increase your ability to tolerate discomfort if you want to defeat your problems, reach your most ambitious dreams, or pack on more muscle. Enhancing your capacity to handle pain is the most important skill to have during a pandemic, whereas most people coddle themselves even more and become increasingly less capable.
However, there isn’t a reliable system to show you how to increase your ability to tolerate discomfort with life’s problems and intense workouts simultaneously.
