When working out, lifting weights, or doing calisthenics — skip counting the reps. Count the breaths.
Focus on a slow, deep, strong breath. Feel the chest expand, or the belly grow.
Use that body awareness to cue into the muscle being worked or a specific form cue. Lock in the shoulder, engage the core, or flex your glute.
Keep an open awareness with focused concentration on the breath and body.
Keep track to progressively overload, but don’t care about the reps or numbers themselves.
Lastly, if you do count, count only to nine. Then just go until failure, or it feels right to stop. There’s something weird about always ending on ten regardless of how much more you could do.
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