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Fitness Weekly Discussion
What have you been doing lately for your own fitness? Try out any new programs or exercises? Have any questions for others about your training? Want to vent about poor behavior in the gym? Started a new diet or have a new recipe you want to share? Anything else health and wellness related?
Recently been waking up early, around 6:30 am, to go to the gym three times per week. It's been good so far and it also has the benefit that I'm pretty tired by evening time and I don't have less trouble heading to bed instead of doomscrolling.
I go through periods of working out for a few months and then my life routine changes so I need to adjust. Come winter for example, it will be more difficult to wake up and go to the gym when it's so dark and cold outside so I might have to experiment with other schedules.
I think that when the gym stops being something that you are looking forward to is when you need to cut it back a bit. That's how I've been able to keep the habit in the past.
I wanted to chime in and say that for my personal fitness routine, building the habit came before looking forward to it. It was much easier for me to start running or going to the gym 3 days a week. And then I did that for a long time, over multiple years with some falling off for changes in my routine such as going on vacation or not feeling it in the winter. However, once 3 days a week started becoming a habit, I experimented with squeezing in a 4th day. When the 4 days a week became normal, slipping back to 3 days a week felt so bad that I found myself with a new habit of 4 days a week.
I don't go to the gym anymore as I have switched over to running as my primary fitness activity, and I'm now to the point where anything less than my routine each week makes me feel "off" and so it is pretty easy to stick to it. I don't know if I would say I look forward to running everyday, but I do look forward to it most days and that wasn't always the case.
Having people around for motivation is really helpful too. My wife was an avid runner our entire relationship so having slowly gone from not a runner to running daily with her has been quite the journey. And now we have developed a larger community of runners who we run with different days each week and that has really helped with the motivation especially when the weather is not ideal.