I Miss You
I Miss You
Your Goal: Form an Exercise Habit
When we start to make changes to our health, it can be a struggle.
Yes we have an understanding of what we need to do, but it all seems so hard.
And this early difficulty is enough to stop people from continuing.
Actually, this can happen to us whenever we learn something new.
The initial stages can be so frustrating because we don't understand it as quick as we think we should.
It's made worse when we compare to others who seem to either already have it under control, or are just learning faster.
One way we can overcome this, is by breaking a task down into smaller components.
In his book Atomic Habits, James Clear talks about how we can better create habits, by doing the task which you are most confident you can repeat.
With the example of exercise, he suggests instead of trying to run everyday, it might be as simple as walking 10 minutes a day, everyday, until you feel it's just a part of your day, and then add to that.
I often talk about making simple changes like only adding one or two weeks of training to your week for the first month.
The idea is the same.
What we ultimately want, is that our exercise and training becomes a habit.
What we want, is that when we don't do it, we miss it.
And I don't mean just for one session - if we're missing it because we couldn't do one training session, we've become obsessed and gone too far the other way.
But if we can't make a week or two of training, missing it is a great sign.
It's a sign we love the feeling training gives us.
We love feeling healthy, strong and in control of our health.
And it's a great place to be.
At the start, the idea of that might seem laughable.
But stick with it long enough until you miss the feeling training gives you.
Until next time,
Marco
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