I mentioned in a blog a few weeks ago about how I’ve never particularly enjoyed running.
Which often surprises people as fitness professionals are supposed to love all forms of exercise.
When I do go running I sometimes do a loop near where I live that’s about 5km.
In an ideal world, I’d run the whole thing.
But sometimes through a combination of niggling injuries and tiredness I might do the odd walk.
Pretty much the whole way around there’s a part of my brain that’s telling me to walk right then.
I’m sure we’ve all encountered this or similar.
So I usually use an approach that many might be familiar with.
Identify a point in the distance that I intend to continue running to and just promise myself that I’ll do that.
Often it’s to run to a lamppost that I can see.
At that point I’ve got permission to walk but I might decide to carry on running.
All I’m concentrating on is that next bit in front of me.
Which, in all cases, is all that ever exists.
All we ever have is the present moment that we’re in and the decisions we can make in it.
We can make plans around what we intend to do in the future, but the future isn’t actually a thing.
The past is just present time memories of previous events with our imagination filling in all of the blanks and most of the meaning (feel free to write that one down for future reference).
What we’ve already done and what we intend to do further down the line don’t have to have any impact on what we’re doing right now other than what we choose to.
We can just choose to run to the next lamppost and not make it any more complicated than that.
Whether that be literally or figuratively.
We can just choose that we’re going to eat well at the next meal.
Giving no weighting to what we ate in the last meal or in previous days.
Recognising that concepts like “writing it off” and “falling off the wagon” aren’t actual things and are just mental constructs that we might use to justify our current behaviour by our past behaviour.
‘Running to the next lamppost’ enough times will add up to improving, or at least maintaining, our fitness.
‘Eating well now’ enough times will add up to improving or maintaining body composition.
It doesn’t need to be any more complicated than that.
Much love,
Jon ‘I love lamp’ Hall
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