Have you heard of the ’75 Hard’ programme?
If you haven’t, it’s a 75 day challenge advertised as a “transformational mental toughness program.”
I’d heard about it and thought I’d give it a go.
So downloaded the app for something like a fiver.
I lasted one day.
It was too hard.
I have no qualms in admitting that.
It involves;
– Following any nutrition plan designed for your goals, with zero alcohol and no cheat meals.
– Complete two 45-minute workouts every day, one of which must be outside.
– Drink a gallon of water every day.
– Read 10 pages of an educational or self-improvement book every day.
– Take a progress picture every day.
Some bits I was fine with.
I drink a lot of water anyway so that didn’t seem too much of a biggie.
I read a lot already.
It was the first two that just didn’t feel doable.
I eat well as an average across the week.
And I don’t subscribe to the concept of “cheat meals” (I’ll cover that on Monday).
But I know that some of my meals, particularly around socialising, come under what they classed as such.
And, whilst I do some sort of exercise most days, the workouts didn’t feel possible to me.
Some days I’m up early and absolutely none stop till my head hits the pillow between work and family related logistics.
It rained on the second day too.
Sure, I could’ve made it all happen if I really wanted to.
But I didn’t want it enough.
And that’s ok.
Being fine with the fact that we don’t want a result enough for the process that accompanies it is empowering.
We can just find a pairing of result and process than we do want enough and are willing to do.
And that feeling that I’d failed on Day 2 and couldn’t actually complete the programme, no matter what happened now, was rather off putting.
One of the comments said “think of this as an Ironman for your brain”.
My immediate thought was “can’t I just do, like, a sprint triathlon for my brain”?
“Or maybe just a gentle jog for today, I’m not feeling too great”.
I’ll have you consider that no one in the whole world has every aspect of their life exactly where they’d like it at all times.
Their body, work, relationships, happiness levels and more.
Everything is a balancing act.
Every one of them could make changes to those areas.
If they did certain things.
If they wanted it badly enough.
It’s ok to not want it badly enough for what’s involved.
What’s involved often having knock on effects to other aspects of that balancing act.
Let’s just accept that and do what we are ok with for a result that’s worthwhile for us (check www.myrise.co.uk/apply for a programme designed to help you do just that) 🙂
Much love,
Jon ’42, Tired’ Hall
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RISE in Macclesfield was established in 2012 and specialise in Group Personal Training weight loss programmes for those that don’t like the gym and find diets boring and restrictive!
