Does Working Out Become Something More Than Just A Workout?

 Why do we train? What truly gives us the motivation or the drive to exercise and better ourselves? Do we even know what the endgame is to our workouts? I ask myself these questions from time to time and although I don't fully have the answers, it becomes a matter of finding the right answers from your own experiences and what gives you the greatest benefit. 

People workout for a variety of reasons; to create a better physique, to be in better condition, to help win in a sport, to maintain health into their later years and at times to be prepared for some sort of battle to protect those they love. Whatever gives you the opportunity to train, make it work in your favor, not always for somebody else. I'm constantly changing up workouts because for one, I don't want to always rely on one thing or one program and two, I want to experience what I can do without the need of killing myself to get the results I want. 

Training in a way for me is like Superman's Fortress Of Solitude, it's not necessarily an actual place I go to physically, it's when I'm in a state of mind where I'm in the moment, everything else around me doesn't exist except what I'm doing in that point in time. It becomes meditative, something that is mine and belongs only to me. It's not a workout anymore, it's home and no matter how hard it is,  I'm deep in it. 

The real question here is, does your workout put you into a state of mind where it's just you and nothing else? The ability to be so locked in that it becomes a world where you decide what happens and where you go. To become something more than what was intended and harnessing the power of pure focus and unleashing the real strength you've always possessed. 

What many don't understand is that working out is something more than what it is intended to be; it's more than just picking up a weight, doing a push-up or carrying a heavy load, it's what brings your entire being into a universal entity that pits you into the realm of the real self, not just what you can do or look like on the outside. That's very foreign to put it and many would think that's just some New Age type stuff but once you let it happen and open up the possibilities, things will happen you've never experienced before. 

Train to not only find who you truly are but do so with the intent that a workout is more than what is seen or used.