Ugh... Resistance Training...

I am not a fan of exercise.
Don't worry. My dislike/hate relationship with exercise is no secret to anyone. Sometimes I go through these phases where I will work out consistently for a few weeks then fall off.
But please believe that those few weeks I do exercise I give it everything I've got.
Anyway, there are so many exercises for a person to choose from: running, swimming, kickboxing, biking. The list is seemingly endless. However, of all of the exercise that I love to hate, resistance training is perhaps the most tolerable for me.
Whether using weight from an outside source of working with your own weight, resistance training is a way to develop and strengthen your muscles. Either pushing or pulling another object with a controlled movement, works the muscles in your body in order to get stronger as well as possibly burn excess fat.
So, what about the resistance we come up against in life? In marriage? Much like the exercise type, marriage resistance builds muscle as well.
Oh how I wish that it burned actual fat, but I'll take what I can get.
Every obstacle that we come up against is resistance. The more we come up against it, work against it, and overcome it, the stronger our marriage will get. The key to the strength is that you and your husband don't push in different directions. The key is to push together.

Ephesians 4:16

"...from whom the whole body, joined and

held together by every joint with which it is equipped,

when each part is working properly,

makes the body grow so that it builds itself up in love."

 

Your marriage is like a body. You and your husband operate different parts of the body at different times. However, in order for the body to work successfully, the different parts of the body have to work together. If the left leg wants to go right, and the right leg wants to go left, no one is going to get anywhere. One accord it the key.

So how does this work into the resistance training? Right here. If an obstacle arises, and you want to handle it one way while your husband wants to handle it another, chaos will soon present itself. Yes, the end result is a solution to the problem, but if both of you tackle the resistance in different ways, you will soon begin to resist each other. That leads to arguments, which leads to space, which can lead to places that both of you don't want to go.

Working together against the resistance is important so that you and your man will grow strong together.

Work together, grow together, stay together.

That's an exercise I can get behind...