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You’ve hopefully noticed they we talk about balance.
A balanced diet.
A balanced lifestyle.
Sounds good doesn’t it?
It can be difficult to quantify though can’t it?
How do we know if we have a balanced diet or lifestyle?
It’s kind of like a set of scales.
The old fashioned ones your (well, my) Granny used to measure stuff out.
The thing you’re weighing on one side.
A series of weights on the other.
You adjust the combination of those weights until the scale stays level.
Not ‘still’.
‘Level’.
Staying still with one side down and the other up would be fairly pointless.
It’s not the lack of movement we’re looking for as such.
It’s the being in a position that we’re happy with.
And our diet and lifestyle is the same.
If our body, health, energy levels, etc are at a point that we’re happy with………
That’s balanced.
If they’re not, it isn’t.
Or, at least, if it’s not moving in that direction.
There’s always a ‘better’ way.
The optimum way to eat, exercise and live.
Great if we’re wanting to get to the Olympics or on the cover of a fitness magazine.
Usually too much for most of us.
Our balance is individual.
A level we’re happy with.
If we’re not, we could do the equivalent of adjusting those little weights.
‘Play around’ with the variables at our disposal to make it start going in the right direction.
Speed is nice, of course.
But direction is more important.
Getting closer to whatever it is we’d like about our body and life?
That’s cool.
We might speed up and slow down on that as circumstance dictates.
But that will ALWAYS beat not going in the right direction.
Never forget that balance is individual to you.
As is how you achieve it.
Much love,
Jon ‘Bike’ Hall
