A husband & wife team I recently started working with has created a simple, well-stocked workout space in their home. We were talking about how they were using it, what kinds of things they were doing, etc.
Their approaches and reasons are different. He’s self-motivated; looks forward to doing something every day and is flexible and adaptive to how much time and energy he has. Her competitive nature is her fuel, but she freely admits that she cruises in the draft of his motivation to get something done most days.
And this has revealed to her, in her words, “an inconvenient truth”.
What’s that, I asked.
Her response was something along the lines of “now that I do something more often, I really notice the difference on the days I don’t do anything.”
Yeah.
After some period of our life basically doing whatever we want, whenever we want, with little physical consequence beyond a day of soreness or something like that, now a small daily maintenance routine can feel… inconvenient. Just one more thing we have to do.
And in a culture deeply committed to comfort and shortcuts, it’s no wonder that might be considered “inconvenient”.
But the truth remains: we feel better on the days we do, and less great on the days we don’t.
I once offered to another client some time ago, “pick your hard.” (Remember that, LW?)
Is it harder to make a little time for some basic care and maintenance, or to live in a tight, stiff, sore, restricted body with the associated nagging issues?
You pick. 🙂