“60 seconds worth of distance run”? [Not always a good idea] | RISE Macclesfield | Group Personal Training gym weight loss programmes

I mentioned a couple of lines from the poem ‘If’ by Rudyard Kipling recently.

I just thought of another line that I quite like.

“If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,”

Which I’m all for.

A fair proportion of these blogs are written on my phone whilst I’m waiting for something.

Making, at least I feel, effective use of that time.

I think though that sometimes we can feel the need to fill every minute a bit too much.

Especially in this time of constantly available entertainment.

The second my kids don’t have something specific happening, they whip out their phones.

My nephew did his work experience with me recently and I fed back to my sister that, great as he did and lovely as he is, he did keep popping onto his phone out whilst we were waiting for something to load or someone to step out of a Session.

Which meant I / we then had to wait for him to come back off it.

And us adults can be much the same sometimes, can’t we.

Getting pulled to our phones in what feels like a spare moment.

But those moments add up don’t they?

And can mean we don’t get the more important stuff done.

As part of my coaching programme I’m part of (beware the coach who doesn’t have a coach) I have to report my phone screen time each week.

Which is always a sobering view.

Not just the total amount of time, but the sheer number of times I access my phone per day.

Sometimes only for 30 seconds.

But it will then take me a minute or so to get back ‘up to speed’ with what I was doing.

The hours I put my phone somewhere else always feel an awful lot more productive.

Creating more free time and / or getting more done.

If you’re less than 100% happy with how much time you put into exercise and better food choices, then check your screen time.

It doesn’t need to be zero, of course.

But could 10 or 20 minutes less per day of that add disproportionate benefit elsewhere?

Remembering that not every 60 seconds need to be filled…………

Can mean you end up with more distance run.

Much love,

Jon ‘Snow patrol’ Hall

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