I saw a spoiler on social media the other day.
For this year’s World’s Strongest Man competition.
Watching it over Christmas in the late 80s and early 90s I never realised that it had been filmed months ago.
The result was always an unknown to Young Jon.
Nowadays, I don’t think I’ve watched it in years without knowing who wins.
A number of strongman events have parallels that you might find beneficial.
I’ve got a good one (at least I think so) for today and a few germs of ideas that I’ll try and explore in the coming days.
Much of our progress towards goals is like the truck pull.
Where, in case you’ve not seen it, the contestants literally pull a lorry.
They have a harness on their back which connects them via a rope to the truck.
And through a combination of pulling on a rope and walking forward in a bent over position……..
They attempt to pull that lorry along a track as fast as they can.
Getting it going is incredibly hard.
Their eyes are bulging out of their head, the veins out of their arms.
You can see the shear levels of exertion in overcoming that initial inertia.
Once they get it going it gets progressively easier.
It’s about keeping the momentum going.
Like with most goals really.
Getting going often feels the hardest bit.
So the answer, surely, is to not stop?
Slow down and speed up the circumstance dictates, sure.
But we can avoid the need to “start again” by never stopping
Just doing what we can that week or month.
Just some sort of exercise.
Some better food choices.
Enough so that when we feel we can do a bit more that’s just a slight adjustment of speed.
To achieve their goal in the truck pull, the strong man know the key is not to stop once they’ve got started.
Can we just do the same?
Much love,
Jon ‘Scania’ Hall
P.S. If you have stopped and want to ‘start again’ for the last time, I’m really good at helping with that (cough *** three times National Fitness Awards top six *** cough) —> www.myrise.co.uk/apply
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