Do You Know Your Limits? If So, How? Or Are Your Limitations Real Or Imagined?

If you ask most people about their limits they might tell you something like, I can do 50 push ups.

Or I can go ___ rounds.

Really?

How do they know?

Have they ever pushed themselves to physical failure? Notice physical failure, not mental.

Most people will push themselves until they aren't comfortable anymore and then stop.

That isn't physical failure.

Physical failure is pushing yourself until your body quits even though you don't want to.
Now I'm not recommending you train this way all the time. What I am recommending is that you train this way once in a while to push yourself to your limits and discover for real what they are as opposed to what you imagine them to be.

When someone says they can perfrom 50 push ups, what they are really saying is that this is their imagined limitation.

If not, why 50?

Why not, 50 and a half?
Or 50 on a good day but 48 and a half to 49 usually.

My point being that a definite number attached to a limit usually means that limit is perceived, and not an actual limit.

The only way to truly find out what your actual limitations are is to attempt to push yourself past them. If you fall flat on your face then you'll know that you have really pushed yourself to failure and have discovered your REAL limitations.

Then you can realistically get to work to break past them.