I haven’t exercised regularly in years, and last week I started thinking about how bad the consequences can be for me. I decided to do something, I wasn’t in the mood, I thought “well, I’ll do 10 push-ups. Maybe it’s not much, but it’s better than nothing”. And I made it. You said “make it ridiculously easy”, and now I just made 15 push-ups. Interesting. This is really easy. And I will do it again. Just a little more on the next time.
Awesome! Just a caveat that I ran into myself: you’ll probably reach a day where you cannot do a little more than you did the previous day/week; either because you reached some limits or because it’s a shitty or busy day. And when that happens, if you have built-in the expectation of improvement every time, you’ll be frustrated.
In my experience, it’s better to have a ridiculously easy baseline (say 10 push-ups for you), while trying to go further when in the mood. But the point is to be satisfied even on bad days where you only do the baseline. That’s my take on it, at least.
I haven’t exercised regularly in years, and last week I started thinking about how bad the consequences can be for me. I decided to do something, I wasn’t in the mood, I thought “well, I’ll do 10 push-ups. Maybe it’s not much, but it’s better than nothing”. And I made it. You said “make it ridiculously easy”, and now I just made 15 push-ups. Interesting. This is really easy. And I will do it again. Just a little more on the next time.
Awesome! Just a caveat that I ran into myself: you’ll probably reach a day where you cannot do a little more than you did the previous day/week; either because you reached some limits or because it’s a shitty or busy day. And when that happens, if you have built-in the expectation of improvement every time, you’ll be frustrated.
In my experience, it’s better to have a ridiculously easy baseline (say 10 push-ups for you), while trying to go further when in the mood. But the point is to be satisfied even on bad days where you only do the baseline. That’s my take on it, at least.