Quality matters more than quantity. Where fitness is concerned, a few good reps are better than a bunch of sloppy ones. Unfortunately, while the leaderboard is a great tool for motivating performance, it is a poor tool for assessing quality.
Empower sent a team to the Fraser Valley Throwdown last year and we had a blast. It is a friendly, local competition geared toward us regular folks with divisions designed to accommodate different fitness levels.
Real-life tips on how to stay fit in summer!
Well, so what? My wife asks me. Well, like Mark Twain said, it’s not what you don’t know that is going to hurt you, it’s the thing you think you know for sure that just isn’t so. Just like a diet low in fat was supposed to be heart healthy or mortgage-backed securities were a sure thing that could never fail. Those kinds of errors can be fatal. And they are expert-supported ideas that coincide with the narratives we’ve created to support system 1 thinking. They are the result of mirages our minds perceive in the random patterns of the world. And they can kill us.
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