Mate, please! Are we here to discuss martial arts or to analyze the English language? You know exactly what I meant: giving absolutely everything and then finding the courage to continue. It doesn't matter what you call it at the end of the day, I made the mistake to use the number or this particular idiom but it really doesn't matter who uses what idiom: let's not be so picky. my point was that pain to me has several mental aspects to it in the sense that when we feel physical pain we have the ability to decide what we are going to do with it. By saying 110% all I meant was: mustering the mental strength to continue when you feel physical pain or hence overcoming what the body isn't normally designed to overcome. Forgive me if this lead to too much confusion, I did not mean to start a silly conversation about idioms and I do not intend to argue about this either .
Also, I do understand that the idiom may annoy you but its a fit far fetched to think that anyone who uses it is basically a lazy slob cheating himself. There's a lot of us who work really hard and use whatever idioms we want to use
. And so what if one is a little lazy with language usage sometimes (it isn't harming anyone is it?).
results in life arnt generally tied to effort, there are millions of poor people who work just as hard a rich people, yet they remain poor, lots of spouses who have done everything they could to make their partner happy who are left for another who treats them like dirt
the trick, such as it is eisnt to apply max effort, its to apply enough effort in the important area so that you get the result you hoped for.
thats applies equally to physical conditioning, an athelete who applies max efort everyday to train, cant perform when it matters in the big game and will have no end of overuse injuries, that mean he isnt playing anyway
i put a lot more effort into my physical conditioning than most of my class mates, and that shows up in class, but im far from putting max effort in, as the law of deminashing returns, means there is little value in that an im oldand ijuries if they occur take a log time to heal, i would sooner be 80% fit 100 % of the time than 100% fit 50% of the time
pushing myself in indevidual exercises depends what the excercise is, doing drop sets with push ups is unlikely to injure me, and the burning sensation is pleasant rather than painful, im not putting max effort into lifting very heavy weights as the risk of injury is high and the pain from a slipped disk actual real pain that im not at all keen to exsperiance again
so in its self your 110% effort claim is meaningless, unless you quantify what your putting that effort into and what benifit it gives you