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I ran across a quote that said:

"Build upon strengths, and weaknesses will gradually take care of themselves."  –Joyce C. Lock

I thought of my friend the Nazi as soon as I saw it. He used to make me do wretched, horrible things at the track.

He would often make workouts for me to do at the field while his students were practicing football. He’s a football coach, and I logged many a cardio session with his boys! They’d be on the field, I’d be running my bleachers.

I would try to quietly leave mid-practice, but he’s always catch me and holler, “Hey, Zanolli. What’d you do today? Did you do what I told you to?”

“Yes, Coach. Fifteen sets of bleachers and walking lunges across the field and back.”

“That’s good, but you can do more. Next time, give me sixteen.”

And as you might guess, the number went up every single time. No matter how many I did. Even when I gave him one more than what he wanted!

But…he was building on my strength, and my strength was endurance.

And that endurance fixed many a weak area for me.

You run the amount of bleachers I did and top that with walking lunges across the field and back, you WILL notice changes in the gym! There is no doubt about it.

It took me by surprise one day.

All of the treadmills were taken, so I went to the stair climber. I used to hate that thing. It was a real weakness for me.

I always had to keep it on baby step mode. You know. The one people put it one and you think, “Why?”

THAT ONE!

But after a few weeks of lunges, that machine was nothing.

Like the quote said, I built on my strength and the weakness took care of itself.

In fact, every leg exercise at the gym became easier. I had to add weights to things I was barely able to do before.

So while I thought I was working on endurance, I was really getting rid of those weak spots.

Build on your strengths, and you might be amazed at what you find.

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