Do you enjoy and look forward to competition? What about competing in general – do you do it?
Well, even if you don’t look forward to stepping on the competition mats and if you don’t compete at all…
There is one simple reason that you should be competing. And that is feedback.
Keenan Cornelius recently shared his own thoughts on competing:
I always felt like competition was kind of like you have to do it to see if what you’re doing in the gym actually works.
He admitted that his feelings towards competition have not always been positive, too:
I always had a lot of negative emotion around competition honestly.
When it’s over, it’s like a relief more than like excitement or happiness that I won.
However, Cornelius re-emphasizes that you should compete because you can improve as a result:
Honest feedback hurts the most.
When you’re forced to go and reconcile your weaknesses in competition, it really beats you down, but you have to be comfortable with that destruction and rebuilding of your game.
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