Somewhere in between the reps and sets your workout was trying to tell you something. Even when you put metabolic conditioning and strength training aside, your workout is trying to teach you something…if you listen. What that voice is saying, when you choose to hear it, is that you don’t know your limits yet, even if you think you do.

I’m not a fitness professional, don’t have any certifications, and I don’t run a gym. Any CrossFit Level 1 graduate will run rings around me in teaching you the fundamentals of a movement or how to program a workout. I’m just a grunt with a couple of tours overseas under his belt. And while I’m not the guy you should be listening to about proper hip drive in the squat, I do know a thing or two about fitness in the real world and what it’s really all about.