In yesterday’s blog I covered why it’s OK to struggle with exercise.

Why it’s great actually.

It was based off of the back of a conversation with a member called Clare.

She was doing pull ups, if you remember?

Pull ups are an exercise people often comment that they find hard.

And press ups, burpees and various other body weight exercises.

Which we get.

It’s because each of them has this “yardstick” version that we’re tempted to consider a “proper” press up, pull up, etc.

Any other version being seen as “not a proper one” or “cheating”.

Many FitPros massively complicit in this with the message they put across as what “is” and “isn’t” a certain exercise.

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We wouldn’t be surprised that doing a lat pull down or chest press was hard if we had on the same weight as we weigh, would we?

If that was too heavy we’d just go for a weight that was OK, wouldn’t we?

No biggie, just the right weight for us.

And we can do the same with body weight exercises.

Change the proportion of our bodyweight that we are using to make it appropriately challenging.

Gradually increasing that over time as we get stronger and fitter.

No different to the pulldown or chest press.

On the knees and / or moving the hips back for the press ups.

Still press ups as you’re pressing and you’re going up.

Keeping some weight on the floor through your feet and / or jumping into the pull up.

If you’re pulling and going up, it’s a pull up.

Specific injuries excluding, anyone can do any exercise.

Just do the version that’s right for you.

Scale the intensity to make it goldilocks.

Whether that’s something a bit more obvious like choice of weight………

Or position of the body……….

Its all good 🙂

Much love,

Jon ‘You might be wondering if I’ll still be emailing you over the next few days. The short answer is yes. The longer answer (and why) will come tomorrow’ Hall

Jon Hall
Jon Hall

When not helping people to transform their lives and bodies, Jon can usually be found either playing with his kids or taxi-ing them around. If you'd like to find out more about what we do at RISE then enter your details in the box to the right or bottom of this page or at myrise.co.uk - this is the same way every single one of the hundreds who've described this as "one of the best decisions I've ever made" took their first step.