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The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Training vs Working Out

The Fr. Mike Schmitz Catholic Podcast

Ascension

Christianity, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.97.1K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2017

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Summary

Inspired by the diligence of professional athletes and St. Paul’s First Letter to the Corinthians, Fr. Mike encourages us to approach our prayer life—and life in general—with a goal and sense of purpose. Getting physically in shape requires more than just a casual workout, and getting spiritually in shape requires more than going through the motions of our religion.

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0:00.0

Hi, my name is Father Mike Smiths and this is a censure presents.

0:11.4

So I've been working out a little bit lately, but it was funny.

0:15.4

I was looking at reading some workout blogs and some videos and stuff, just getting

0:19.5

kind of inspired to go back.

0:21.4

And there was one person and athlete who was talking about, they said that on their days

0:26.4

off, they like to work out.

0:28.8

I went, I was like, whoa, where do we go to talk about it?

0:30.8

And they described like, you know, during the training days, their real days, they're

0:35.1

training, they hit the weights, they do, you know, sprints, whatever the kind of thing

0:38.8

is.

0:39.8

But they said on their off days, I like to work out by just, you know, going for a run

0:43.8

or like to work out by going for a bike ride or I thought, oh my gosh, that's a huge

0:48.6

distinction.

0:49.6

The difference between training and working out is a really big deal.

0:55.2

Because training means that you have a goal, right?

0:57.3

That you're going for something, you're fighting for something, you're working for something,

1:00.4

you're training for something.

1:01.9

Working out just means like, no, I'm exercising.

1:04.2

I'm going through the motions.

1:06.0

You might even be going through the motions with a lot of effort, but there's no goal.

1:12.7

And as I started thinking about this, I realized that that's how a lot of people just

1:18.0

live their life.

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