In the WhatsApp exchange that I’ve referenced in the last couple of blogs, it was referenced that we would be out to drinking that afternoon.
Pretty much this time last week.
We met in Didsbury at 1pm to do the Didsbury Dozen for a friend’s 50th.
The wife and I only stayed for the first half a dozen or so as we had to be at our nephew’s 18th birthday party that evening.
We were only at pub number three when the shots started arriving.
A tray full of Baby Guinnesses.
For those that don’t know, a shot of coffee liqueur topped with Irish cream that looks like a little pint of Guinness.
I posted a picture of me and my shot online with the caption “Bit early for this…….”
And, as happens pretty much every time I ever post anything that involves alcohol, I get replies along with the lines of the subject to this blog.
“I didn’t think you drank?”
I’ve had variations of that pretty much every time I’ve been spotted with a drink for the last 20 odd years.
And I get it.
The natural assumption is that Fitness Professionals don’t drink.
They just eat chicken and broccoli from Tupperware.
Live in the gym.
Boring, soulless creatures who never have any fun.
Which, from my experience, is largely untrue.
Maybe some parts are.
And some don’t drink.
But plenty do.
In general, it’s very easy to develop a belief that the results we’re after require ‘more’ than they actually do.
And, when we don’t feel we can do what we think needs to be done……..
It’s tempting to, essentially, do nothing at all.
Now it’s pretty safe to say that we would get faster results, all else being equal, if we didn’t drink.
Or by spending longer in the gym.
Or eating a plainer, fresher, more nutritious, lower calorie, higher protein diet.
But none of those things are needed for very reasonable forward progress.
And it doesn’t mean that we can’t ‘average out’ around a lot of things.
If we drink and have periods of over consumption………
But then have periods of ‘under consumption’ to bring the total for the week ‘in budget’………..
Then we’ll still lose weight, get in better shape, etc.
Could we drink, eat out a lot, get take out, etc and win Olympic Gold?
Doubtful.
Could we do all those things, average around them and be in better shape than we are now?
Definitely.
Much love,
Jon ‘Felt it on Sunday’ Hall
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