While I spend a good chunk of my
time planning exercises for people, thinking about balancing cardio, strength,
balance, and flexibility, I know that ultimately the best exercise is the
exercise that gets done. I can
plan the perfect workout, but if I don’t do it, it doesn’t help.
When my clients are with me, they
do what I plan. The rest of their
lives, they are on their own and have to make positive fitness choices All By
Themselves, just like we all do.
As an impatient person, I
complain about tracking things. It
takes too long to write stuff down.
(I am waiting for the Fitbit Psychic, which will just know what I eat
and do and everything without me having to do anything…) However, when I do track what I do, I
learn to make better choices.
I make a plan every week. The first part of making the plan is
looking at last week’s results and seeing how I did. If I set my goal too low, I know I need to kick it up a
little. If I didn’t do half of
what I planned, I need to figure out whether I was overly optimistic about what
was possible or just lazy or some combination.
Maybe a pattern emerges. Maybe it turns out that 5:30 a.m. spin
just doesn’t work right now. Maybe
that lunchtime workout does the trick.
The workout we do is better than
the perfect workout we avoid.
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