Your All or Nothing Mindset Is Slowing You Down
Listen…I’ve been the girl who wanted to do 4 classes a week, run the half marathon, and neatly pair it with my sauna blanket and red light mask three times a week. And in theory, it sounds incredible…but if you’ve only been taking walks for the past 6 months and doing a light Peloton workout in your basement once a week, we need to set our self up for success, not disappointment.
And if you’re anything like me, you beat yourself up about it. You tell yourself you'll "start fresh" next week if the plan doesn’t go “right”. You'll come back when work calms down or when the kids are back into a routine. When you don’t have travel or when life is “less crazy”
And before you know it, the one workout you could have done turns into zero.
Because, we convinced ourselves that if we can't do it perfectly, it's not worth doing at all.
But trust us, that’s so not the truth!
Working Hard vs Training Well: Why More Effort Doesn’t Always Mean Better Results
If you've spent any amount of time around fitness, you've probably heard some version of this:
DON’T STOP, as many rounds as possible, your glutes should be on fire, or the absolute worst…earn that [insert food you love}.
And listen, effort matters. You are never going to accidentally build strength, improve your endurance, or see results by doing the bare minimum. But pushing yourself to pure exhaustion could be the thing that's holding you back from progressing.
In fact, a lot of people struggling the most to see progress are the exact people putting in the most effort.
You’re showing up, sweating, and maybe even exhausted when you leave. You’re probably doing all the things (and then some). Yet somehow, you still feel stuck.
Because working hard and training well are not the same thing.