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This One Mindset Shift Will Mend Your Rocky Relationship With Exercise

You’re closer to your goals than you think!

David Liira, Kin.
4 min readAug 8, 2023
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While resistance training is an indispensable part of fitness and injury prevention, it’s also one of the most misunderstood domains of health and wellness. One thing I’ve noticed as a trainer is that we tend to put exercise in a box and hold these rigid definitions of what certain activities entail. Not only does this put up unintentional barriers between you and your health goals, but it can cause you to invest more time and money into achieving them than is probably necessary.

To help you find clarity and purpose in your fitness journey, I want to break down a key mindset shift that needs to happen. Not only will this help you exercise more effectively, but it can be the very difference between living life to the fullest or scraping by with injuries and chronic pain.

Let’s dive right in!

Redefining What It Means To Be Strong

A quick internet search will show you that resistance training is defined as, “any training that involves the performance of physical exercises that are designed to improve muscular/tissue strength and endurance”. The very fact that this definition is broad drives my point home. Resistance training comes…

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David Liira, Kin.
David Liira, Kin.

Written by David Liira, Kin.

Kinesiologist. Writing on health and the human condition. Clap and I clap back. https://www.davidliirakin.com

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