Friday Thoughts #4
Welcome to Friday thoughts, where I piece together half-formed posts, share ideas, or anything else that’s on my mind this morning.
Secondary Goals. The best goals are multifaceted, and that’s what’s going on with Easy Strength for me. The main gain is to do 40 squat workouts in a pretty short period of time with the intention of hitting a big lifetime PR before the year is over. But that goal has presented opportunities for other things. By filming all my squats I can play with my camera settings, try different angles I hadn’t thought of and tinker with editing them. A few days into this squatting and posting challenge I created for myself I realized it would be a good chance to get better at filming and editing, because just like the squats, I’m doing it everyday.
I enjoy challenges like this. Doing something everyday. It’s how the blog started. I was inconsistent for years until I committed to posting something on here 5 days a week. Practicing a daily habit, even if only temporarily, jump starts your skills, creates motivation and discipline, and hopefully, kickstarts other positive habits that are part of a healthy lifestyle. WIth that being said, keep a look out for GAIN’s upcoming habit challenge.
The two best books about habits are: The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg and Atomic Habits by James Clear.
The two simplest, most accessible, most life changing daily habits are stretching or rolling while watching TV at night instead of slouching on the couch and getting more daily steps. Simple but not easy.
What is one thing you could add to your life everyday? Remember, it needs to be hard but not too hard, ultra specific, and you should probably cut in half whatever you initially thought of. Meaning if you jumped right to, I will walk ten thousands steps everyday, but currently don’t even know how many steps you do get, you should “lower the bar” and create and more realistic target, relative to how much you’re currently walking, not just a nice round number, (which is where the whole 10,000 steps thing came from, it just looks and sounds good).
Justin Miner
@justinminergain
