The Trouble with Consistency
“Everything in life starts with your mindset first. Your actions follow your thoughts, your beliefs and your ideas. To make a shift, to free your energy: start with getting your mind right, and then, take action.”
Picture this: A woman with her goals set.
She’s not only competent, but actually quite capable in her favourite sports. She knows the drills. She has the skills. In the quiet moments between achievements, she gets excited about what is to come. She dreams big, and saves ambitious combinations to try in her next workout.
She’s so close to levelling up and really making progress towards her goal. There is just one thing that stands in her way.
Consistent training.
She tries, again and again, to start working towards her goals. Each day she sets new intentions for tomorrow, adding in new training here and there. Taking out distractions, adding in new cues.
She cycles through accountability buddies quicker than favourite songs and is collecting a bank of uncompleted workout programmes that would make the most seasoned procrastinators cringe.
She’s not struggling in her sports, not by any means, but she’s just not bringing her best. Nothing changes between one set of progress photos and the next… where she’s inevitably started again instead of continuing the initial series.
There’s no real progress, and the only consistent thing is the pang of guilt that she’s fallen off the bandwagon again.
You might be reading this and seeing your own fitness journey, or you may struggle to get started at all. You may recognise these patterns, or not have made it far enough to be sure… but you have a sense they feel familiar.
I know this person isn’t hypothetical, so if you recognise her, you’re in good company.
She’s you, she’s your friend… and she’s me.
Over the course of 2022, I’m going to be sharing a lot about consistency, how to show up, and how to finally make progress in training regularly. This isn’t some hypothetical nonsense, this is 11 years in the fitness industry, some meaty breakthroughs, and finally finding a sense of consistency in my training after years of false starts.
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