I’m sure this scenario will sound familiar to many of you…
Saturday morning I wake up with the best of intentions to do a 6:15am gym session before my shift starting so I can have some family time the rest of the day.
I then made the cardinal mistake of going on my emails first thing finding an email letting me know the gyms water bill was rising by 829% this year, as you can imagine this lead to a bit of digging to see whether this was correct.
I then got to the gym and just as I was finding my flow Eoghan came in and let me know there was broken glass all over the driveway.
Cue the session being interrupted so I could go sweep it away, after all members bursting tyres on their way in isn’t great for client satisfaction!
All in all this meant it was far from an optimal session. It changed from 70 minutes to 40, got done in a funny order and I missed a few pieces.
While these reasons are specific I’m sure you can think of many similarities with your own lives and training.
Kids, last minute meetings, illnesses, travel and 100 other things all get in the way of your training.
The mistake I see SO many people make?
If it can’t be perfect, they don’t do anything.
Many of us convince ourself that if we can’t do the full session theres no point doing any of it.
Or if we are eating ‘unhealthy’ at night then the rest of the day is a write off.
Or if we can only make the gym once this week then we may as well not go at all.
Whilst I totally understand it this reasoning is flawed.
While progress may not be as quick any action that keeps us moving forward is a positive in my book, especially as life is always going to throw curveballs.
On a side note this is why I get so frustrated when people say it’s ‘not the right time’ to start a fitness journey.
There is no ‘right’ time. Life will ALWAYS be busy and as the song says we need to get used to dancing in the rain rather than waiting for the sun (or something like that).
