Learn(ed) Fitness Friday
I thought it would be helpful and fun to make a new blog entry every Friday about the things I learned or want others to learn in health & fitness. Things that’ve helped me through the week, month, or years. I’m calling it Learn(ed) Fitness Friday, or LFF for short.
So lets get to a few things that hit home for me this week.
- Constant change is good
- The past few weeks I’ve been constantly changing up my workouts. As a result my muscles are often sore, I’ve yet to be bored with my workouts, and I’ve had some really great losses every week (averaging over 3 pounds per week). Forcing those adaptation responses by your body by constantly confusing it really works.
- Don’t wait until you your in that rut to change your workouts. By that point you’ll already be frustrated, confused, and may even be ready to give up.
- Planning is your crutch
- This week was very busy at work and home … crazy deliverables on projects and preparing for our new sons arrival is quite draining. As a result I’ve been tired each and every night. I’ll be honest, it was hard enough working out. Had I not planned the meals and workouts for each day I’m certain I would have been forced to make some hard restaurant based decisions. That decreased temptation meant the healthy decisions I made by planning paid huge dividends.
- It takes time to get it right
- Finding that groove with any life change, especially losing weight and getting healthy, isn’t easy. For me it’s taken years of starting and restarting and restarting and restarting. Every time I’ve failed I’ve tried to learn something and adapt next time. Heck, over time I even made the same mistake multiple times. I’ve perfected failure, there I said it.
- Don’t be afraid of failing, it comes with the territory. If this was easy everyone would lose weight … heck, they’d never gain it in the first place right? Honestly … my failures were almost all due to not planning but it took many failed shortcuts to figure that out.
- Sometimes you need space
- I’ve failed so many times that I’ve grown tired of talking with my family and friends about it. I’m not embarrassed, seriously I’m not. I just need to live it before I want to share it this time. They know I’m working out and losing weight but I don’t think they understand my resolve this time around.
- Smoking stinks
- Last but not least, Charlotte had a rough week trying to exercise near a human smoke stack and lived to tell the story. If you smoke, please do us all a favor … nuke the clothes, take a shower before working out, or take the treadmill in the far corner.
“The difference between a rut and a grave is the depth” — Gerald Burrill
“Failing to plan is planning to fail” — Winston Churchill
“In this age, which believes that there is a short cut to everything, the greatest lesson to be learned is that the most difficult way is, in the long run, the easiest.” — Henry Miller
“Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again.” — Joseph Campbell
I hope those weren’t too cliché or simpleton. I know they could be seen as generic but they nevertheless were fundamental to helping me through the past few weeks.
If your interested in sharing some of the things you learned this week (or in the past) and want to participate in Learn(ed) Fitness Friday you can do any or all of the following:
- Post a Comment — Just drop on down below and post a comment on something you learned this week. As the list grows I’m going to post some of the best user lessons learned.
- Post on Twitter — Create a tweet using the tag #LFF sharing a lesson you learned. I’ll use some of the best tweets in my weekly post.
- Post on your Blog — On your own site just reference Learn(ed) Fitness Friday and link back to my site, preferably one of the LFF posts.
Did you learn something new this week? Share it with everyone and participate in Learn(ed) Fitness Friday.
