FitLife with Jordy

DO HARD THINGS. 🧠🔥

Training isn’t just about building a stronger body. It’s about building a stronger mind.

When you choose to do something difficult in training — when your legs are burning, your lungs are screaming and your brain is telling you to stop — you’re practising something that goes far beyond the gym.

You’re teaching yourself that discomfort doesn’t mean danger. Hard doesn’t mean impossible. And wanting to quit doesn’t mean you have to.

Life is going to throw hard things at us whether we’re ready for them or not. Difficult conversations. Setbacks. Stress. Loss. Change. Moments where things don’t go according to plan.

We can’t control when those moments come, but we can build the mental resilience to face them.

Every time you push through one more rep, finish that run, pick up the heavier weight or complete the workout you wanted to quit halfway through, you’re creating evidence that you are capable of doing hard things.

So don’t always train for comfort.

Train for resilience.
Train for discomfort.
Train for the moments when life gets hard.

Because sometimes the hardest thing you do today is preparing you for something you haven’t even faced yet. 🖤

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For me, it’s about looking after the body that allows me to do what I love — training hard, working on my feet all day and being able to stay active. 💪🏼

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FR tho 😮‍💨

The mental side to a HYROX race is a whole another race of its own 😅 If you don’t mentally prepare yourself for talking through it, it could eat you alive 😂

I would rather have the energy to race than look ripped to other people. 👏🏼

Because here’s something I’ve had to remind myself of during race week:

Your body is not supposed to look the same when it’s fuelled for performance.

When you increase your carbohydrate intake before a race, your body stores more glycogen in your muscles and liver. Glycogen is stored alongside water, so as those stores increase, you can temporarily hold more water and food volume which can mean looking a little fuller, softer or “fluffier”, and sometimes wondering where the hell your abs went. 😂

That does not mean you gained a bunch of body fat.
It does not mean you lost your muscle.
And it definitely does not mean you are less fit or less strong.

In fact, that glycogen is exactly what your body needs to help fuel hard, high-intensity exercise. Carbohydrate availability is an important part of preparing for endurance performance (As mentioned in a review on PubMed) . And for even longer endurance sports(over 90min) the Fuelling needs to increase even more.

And honestly, this is something I think we need to talk about more.

We have been SO programmed by society, fitness culture and the MeanGirl(s) of the internet to believe that if our muscles aren’t visibly popping, we must not be strong or athletic.

If our abs aren’t showing, we’re not lean enough.
If we’re holding water, we’ve “let ourselves go.”
If our body looks softer, we must be doing something wrong.

But what your body looks like is not an indication of what it can do.

A body can look shredded and be exhausted.

A body can look soft and be incredibly strong.

A body can hold more water, more glycogen and more food — and be better prepared to perform.

So during race week, I’m choosing the latter.

I’d rather temporarily hide my abs than hide from the carbs and FUEL my body needs.

I’d rather feel fuelled, powerful and ready to race than spend the final days before competition trying to look good for a photo.

The goal isn’t to “look like an athlete”.
The goal is to fuel your body so you can perform like one. 🧡

And don’t worry…

the abs will come back. 😂