3 Reasons to End Your Workout on a High Note

There’s a frequent debate when it comes to workouts: should you push to your max or stop short of it?

The answer is: it depends.

It depends on your goals for that workout and your long term training goals.

It also depends on your other goals for your day.

Even if you feel confident that you can do more, there’s something to be said for leaving some in reserve and not pushing to your max.

This is especially true for people with ADHD — as we often rely on our workouts to boost our dopamine and help us start our days on a good note.

Here are 3 reasons to end on a high note:

When you have a good rep, or you do something in good form, you want to get that feeling in your body.

Letting the good rep stand as your last rep of the day helps you anchor that feeling in your body so you can find it more easily the next time.

Also, leaving on the high sets you up to feel motivated to come back the next time and try for more.

There’s a “phantom confidence” that comes from the belief that maybe you could have done more.

It’s phantom because it’s based on a belief that hasn’t yet been disproven.

But sometimes that’s enough to enough to carry you through.

You arrive the next time with confidence based on where you left off, and a belief that you can do more.

People with ADHD are especially driven by emotions, and emotions from one activity often carry into others — for better or worse.

Leaving on a high helps fuel your energy for other actions you need to take that day.

You can ride your wave of confidence into your other activities.

Failure show you where your max is, but sometimes you don’t need that information.

For people with ADHD, confidence can be hard to come by. When it does come, it’s like a very fragile balloon.

In some cases, failure can deflate the fragile confidence balloon you’ve built through reaching a high point.

It can be more helpful to leave with the belief you could have done more, than to attempt more and fail.

The belief that you could have done more will help motivate you to come back to it the next time.