Most of us don’t worry about brushing our teeth. It’s just something we do on autopilot. Maybe we aren’t so good about flossing and we need the hygienist to threaten us with her pointy sticks to spur us on to better things, but the brushing we have covered.
We want our basic workouts to be like brushing our teeth. We don’t have to think about them or plan for them; we just do them. Oh, it’s morning: I brush my teeth and go for a run. The work day is done: I am going to lift weights now.
To get to that point, we need practice. We need to make sure we have the workout equivalent of toothbrush and toothpaste available. For some of us, this means sleeping in our workout clothes or having them right there when we roll out of bed. Others of us need to make sure the gym bag is packed along with our lunch and our other work things.
Eventually, starting or ending the day without a workout will feel as weird as forgetting to brush our teeth.
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