6 Nov 2010

Is pain a necessary part of conditioning?

Can conditioning happen without pain?

You might ask why the need for conditioning or what is conditioning? We are creatures of conditioning. Picture a weight-lifting champion in the gym. Or a gymnast practising for a championship or a kid with cerebral palsy undergoing physiotherapy to loosen his muscles. What is the common element?

Pain! Conditioning! Pain is a necessary part of conditioning. We all have heard the phrase ‘no pain no gain’ and Jane Fonda who started the aerobics craze back in the early 80s asked ‘can you feel it?’ [‘it’ being the pain when exercising].

If we do not consciously and actively seek conditioning by a selected discipline, our circumstances will anyhow condition us [typically unknowingly].

The reality is we have the freedom to choose…

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