Exercise is f**king hard. It makes your heart feel like it’s coming out of your chest, makes you breathless, causes your muscles to burn and often times, it’s exhausting.
Our instincts run deep and they are powerful. They do everything in their power to stop you from exercising. For millions of years our ancestors worked hard for 2 hours a day gathering food and that would give them just enough energy to survive, the rest of the time they sat around fires, had sex and talked about the weather.
They never ran for fun. If they could see us now running on treadmills, indoors, going nowhere in a dark room they’d roll around laughing.
But we live in a modern world where we don’t have to move, everything is automated or mechanical. Now we have to chose to be active, but our instincts tell us not too.
That’s why exercise is hard. It happens to me on a daily basis but I’ve learnt to be kind to myself and I’ve learnt that the path to building a consistent fitness routine is a simple one. If we chose to take it.
Here’s the secret. Don’t be the person looking to hit the ball out of the park. Stop chasing the big wins. It’s a beautiful dream but a poor strategy, the odds are stacked against you.
Be the person who falls in love with incremental change.
1% better today than yesterday adds up. If you compound that change, that’s 3,800% a year. Or 40 times better than you were at the start. Momentum is a funny thing.
Small, consistent effort wins big.
Onwards,
Ross