Tuesday, November 24, 2009

Training vs working out

Seriously - what is the difference? People generally make this distinction, but for the life of me, I'm not sure why.

If your workouts are desgined to make you faster or better for some event, near as I can tell, this makes them 'training'. But what about training for life? Or for weight loss? Or for physique? Does it have to be an event?

And really, isn't it all just semantics?

I will readily admit that I have a greater compulsion to hit all my training sessions moreso that I do all my workouts. Maybe it's because training implies a seriousness that should not be ignored and an end time frame which cannot be changed. Or maybe it's because by its nature, the word training indicates that if you do it, there will be progress.

Whatever the reasons, 'training' sounds better than working out. For from now on, I'm in training. :-p

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