5 Mindset Hacks For Health & Fitness Success

Reinforce your foundations with a super strong mindset!

Patrick Duane
The Gist
Published in
6 min readAug 13, 2021

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Long term fitness success is built upon solid foundations. You could say that a strong mindset reinforces those foundations. Helps you handle the stresses that you will inevitably face. A strong mindset isn’t something that comes naturally to most people. It takes time to develop, and harness its power. Let me tell you that it is worth developing, because when you do, you can make real changes to your health, fitness and your daily life.

How can you improve your mindset, when it comes to health and fitness? You need to understand the underlying thought processes that affect both. This sense of enlightenment will give you a baseline of where you are at, and what adjustments you need to make to develop your mindset.

#1. Focus on Technique Over Getting Tired

Exercising isn’t just about getting tired, sweating profusely, getting the heart rate up, collapsing on the floor post workout due to exhaustion. I know the mentality of a lot of people is along these lines, and it’s not a true workout if you don’t get into these varying states. However, you don’t measure the success or failure of the workout on how tired you get.

It’s not a good way to judge every workout, and leads to more harm than good in the long run. When you think about it, a lot of people don't have great technique when it comes to lifting weights, you can also add in poor movement patterns on top of that.

Now they expect to come in for a 40-minute workout and swing weights around the place until they get tired? Sure, it’s possible to get tired and sweat a lot, but that doesn't mean that you aren’t increasing the risk of injuring yourself. Or even having an optimal training effect.

The foundation of lifting weights is technique, it will literally make or break your experience.

Good technique takes time to perfect, but it’s more than worth your while. Benefits? Well, you reduce the risk of injury, work the intended muscles optimally, don’t use momentum, less likely to develop muscle imbalances. The following is a deceiving scenario…

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Patrick Duane
The Gist

I’m a fusion of finance and fitness. Background in financial services, certified PT, blogger, world traveler. 4x Top Writer ✍️