It’s a not uncommon conversation that I have with people when they start with us……………..
That they say something along the lines of “I’m hoping that four weeks will be enough for me to fall in love with exercise”.
Or, maybe later on, they express “I’m still waiting to fall in love with it, but it doesn’t seem to be happening”.
When we explore what’s happening a bit further, the issue quickly becomes clear.
They’re usually not actually looking for love for exercise………
But for infatuation.
Where you can only see the positives and everything appears perfect.
How it might feel at the start of a new relationship.
Love only really comes when we see all sides of something or someone.
When we accept the perceived good and the bad.
The parts that we like and the parts that we’re less keen on.
If we can only see what we perceive to be the bad in a person or situation, that’s “resentment”.
If we can only see the good, it’s “infatuation”.
Only when we see all sides of a person or situation and truly accept them, can it really be love.
Loving exercise isn’t thinking it’s amazing and everything’s easy with it.
It’s accepting that sometimes it’s hard.
Sometimes we don’t feel like it.
Sometimes it’s a struggle to fit it in.
Sometimes it hurts.
That it costs opportunity to do other things.
If we’re waiting till everything is absolutely perfect in our relationship with exercise in order to love it……..
We’ll be waiting forever.
When we accept the downsides……..
And that they’re more than worth it for the upsides……..
Only then can we fall in love with it (and I genuinely believe that you stand the best chance possible of that with us – enter your details at www.myrise.co.uk/apply to take the next step with our 4 Week Transformation – with two weeks extra for free over Christmas – if you’d like to find out if that is the case for you).
Much love,
Jon ‘InLEANuation’ 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!
