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What does it mean?
Pain is necessary for progress; La Lanne exemplifies this.
In plain terms
No pain, no gain, as La Lanne shows.
What can you take from it?
Accept discomfort as part of growth.

Where it applies

  • fitness training
  • skill learning

Putting it to work

  • push through discomfort
  • gradual overload

Questions to consider

  • When is pain a sign to stop?
  • How do you balance effort and safety?

Another view

Excessive pain can cause injury.

More from Jack La Lanne

  1. First we inspire them, then we perspire them.

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  2. You eat everyday, you sleep everyday, your body was made to exercise everyday.

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  3. Ten seconds on the lips and a lifetime in the hips.

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