Girrrl... Can I Ask You Something?
Society & Culture:Relationships
Recorded June 20 , 2021
In this episode we welcome back guest, Ren Jones of Fitness Jones Training to help us understand how to simplify the process of reaching our fitness goals. To be honest, we needed convincing that simplifying fitness was actually a thing. We were not disappointed. You HAVE to listen to this episode to get the full comedic effect of the banter between the three of us but I'll let you in on some of the must-have takeaways from this episode.
First of all it helps to understand how we tend to think about fitness. The harder your exercise regimen sounds the more it will garner support on social media. However, Ren explained that its actually a selection of simple actions done consistently that ultimately lead to success. Sounds too good to be true right? I thought so too, but in truth it seems we are wired to get in our own way.
Here are some simple tips for getting out of our on way to finding fitness success:
1) We tend to think that starting with extreme exercise routines will produce the results we want, however it most often leads to us getting overwhelmed quitting all together.
Tip: Start with a simple task of moving more than you usually do, then when that becomes a habit you can start increasing the intensity.
2) If we spend a lot of time thinking about losing weight, then, when we finally decide to get started, we counterbalance that procrastination with impatience. That leads us to looking for something intense and complex to do for our new exercise routine.
Tip: See the tip above.
3) We believe we need an extreme diet to see progress. This tends to look like grass smoothies and water fasts.
Tip: Add 4 to 5 servings of fruits and vegetables daily. Most importantly, you should eat slowly and stop when you feel full.
4) We quickly get bored when we become accustomed to our fitness routine and begin to look for more complexity as a solution. Increasing complexity too soon will invariably throw you off track and could create setbacks in your progress.
Tip: Don't sacrifice success for novelty. Get a trusted trainer to set, monitor, and adjust your routine as appropriate and then trust the process. Also, see the very first tip.
Guest Quotes:
We like to brag about the super hard -ish we are doing. Nobody's going to go on social media and brag to say 'I walked for 20 minutes today.' You won't get no likes for that!
Simple is not great for social media but it works.
We feel like success comes at the hand of difficulty.
If you don't understand the process of what you are doing and how to document progress in it, you will default to difficulty as a means of telling yourself its working.
We try to start with the intensity first and build a very, very intense thing into a habit and it just doesn't work that way. It's not a great way to build a habit.
We have a mistrust of simplicity in terms of getting us to a goal.
A good coach is going to provide an appropriate solution for the population they work with.
Everyone does better when they move more.
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