I’m making a conscious effort to keep my blogs shorter. It’s a new challenge for a recovering long-worded rambler, but I up for the test. The blogs you’ll see moving forward will have 500 word limits, a welcome change for long time readers accustomed to my 2,000-3,000 word streams of consciousness.
And since I’m using up so many of these precious characters with this unnecessary explanation, let’s dive right into it.
There’s a ton of nuance with your fitness journey, and I’m the true believer that while some folks have had similar fitness journeys, yours is 100% unique to you. However, while we recognize and accept that nuance, it can actually be pretty helpful (and empowering) to think about your fitness a bit more binary.
Let’s imagine our personal fitness is like a business.
Businesses always have busy seasons, slow seasons, seasons of growth, seasons of hanging on for dear life… but the only thing that truly matters is they stay open. As long as a business is open, they’re winning.
Open? Winning.
Closed? No longer winning.
Same goes for your fitness.
You’re going to have wildly different seasons of life. Seasons where you can really focus in and chase PRs. Seasons where you feel like you’re barely hanging on and are only getting in 1-2 sessions a week. Seasons where you feel great, and where you feel rough.
But as long as you continue to consciously engage in fitness, you’re making progress and WINNING.
Actively engaging in some form of fitness each week? Winning.
Not doing that? No longer winning.
It could be one to two sessions a week.
It could be 5 days a week.
It could be at a 2/10 RPE.
It could be 10/10 RPE.
It doesn’t matter where you’re falling on that fitness continuum in whatever season you’re in. The only thing that matters is you keep showing up in whatever capacity you can.
Keep showing up, and you’ll keep winning. And of course, if you need help showing up, send me an email and let’s set up a time to chat. [email protected].
See you at the gym,
-Clark
(334 words besides this sentence. NICE).
