One of the sections in our monthly briefing meetings that I mentioned yesterday (this one here, go check it out if you haven’t already –>myrise.co.uk/briefing-meeting) goes through peoples common concerns before they start with us.
And one of those concerns (probably the most common one) is some version of “Too hard”.
“It’ll be too difficult for me”.
“I won’t be able to keep up”.
“I’ll be the fattest / least fit there”.
“I won’t know what I’m doing and I’ll feel stupid”.
As I explain, we pitch our workouts to be ‘Goldilocks exercise’.
Not too easy, not too hard.
“Enough to elicit a change in the body over time. Not enough so that you can’t do it or feel awful the next day and don’t want to come back”.
The thing is though, in life, everything needs to be ‘Goldilocks’.
Too little / easy and we’ll soon get bored and / or it won’t yield results.
To much / hard and we can’t do it a we get demotivated and put off.
Success comes when we operate on the edge of our comfort zone.
Not completely outside of it.
Not right in it.
There’s research that suggests us humans operate best at 4% beyond what we’re used to.
Enough to get us results, to inspire and enthuse us and to make it all feel worthwhile.
Not so much that it’s impossible and we give up.
Now, that 4% is hard to quantify in real life, of course.
But you get the idea.
If what you’re trying to do at the moment feels too much, scale it back a bit.
You’ll get further by carrying on at 60 mph than you will by stopping from 80.
Doesn’t feel worthwhile or interesting?
Scale it up a little.
Find that sweet spot.
Three GTP sessions a week feel too much to do every single week?
Go for a definite one and two other bits of exercise (combination of GTPs and home workouts off the app / site).
Eating ‘clean’ (whatever that means) all the time feel too much?
Have a weekly ‘budget’ that still takes you in the right direction but gives you flexibility.
You get the idea.
No right or wrong answer.
Find that sweat spot for you.
Not too easy, not too hard.
Make it Goldilocks 🙂
Much love,
Jon ‘Porridge’ Hall and Matt ‘Bed’ Nicholson
