Why even the laziest workout is better than no workout

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

One of the most frequent questions dictated by our laziness: should we go to a workout when supposedly there is no strength for a full-fledged training, or skip class after spending the evening on the couch? In fact, the answer to this question is always the same.

If you go to the gym for your wife (husband), parents, children, relatives or Instagram followers - do whatever you want. If you are moving towards your intended goal and want to remain honest with yourself - do the maximum that you can, with what you have, and where you are. This golden rule of discipline is useful in all areas of life.

In sports, as in business, it is very important to form the right habits, the power of which cannot be overestimated. Charles Duhigg has a book published. Despite the fact that it was written by a journalist specializing in business, the publication's leitmotif is applicable to all walks of life, including sports.

The point is to stay in a certain rhythm all the time and change bad habits for good ones. In this case, a good habit is a systematic visit to the gym or a training section, a bad habit is skipping classes.

Once you start skipping a workout, you replace a good habit with a bad one. With each new pass, skipping workouts over and over again becomes easier, and self-control diminishes.

Suppose you don't have enough energy for a full-fledged strength workout today: you ate poorly, were tired at work, stood in traffic jams all day, or did not make it to the gym for some other reason. Then it makes sense to conduct a workout at home - general, light, circular - or just go for a run.

Take a kettlebell, dumbbells, or, if neither, a five-liter can of water. Find any crossbar and bars - if there is no playground in the yard, walk to the nearest school stadium. Do some trisets of the simplest exercises:

• kettlebell throw - 4 sets of 10 reps;
• pull-ups on the bar - 4 sets of 8 reps;
• bar push-ups - 4 sets of 10 reps.

Rest for one and a half minutes after each triset. Do not consider this workout or a similar workout as a complete replacement for one of your workout plan pages.

Make up your own "backup" program, which you will resort to in rare cases of missing a full training.

Agree with yourself that you can skip three workouts per month for good reasons, provided that you replace them with alternative training. Later, reduce the number of absenteeism to two, then to one per month.

The hardest part about lazy training is getting started, getting off the ground. As soon as you find yourself on the sports field, the action will go by inertia. It's the same with a full-fledged workout in the gym: many novice athletes are lazy not so much to train as to get to the gym. As soon as you find yourself within its walls, the very atmosphere of the "rocking chair" will not let you relax.

In sports, as in any other business where results are needed, the system is important. Without it, the movement towards your goal will drag on for many months, for inaction during which, most likely, it will be very ashamed.