It hurts to see your progress stall out, or worse, to regress…
I received this message earlier in the week on Instagram:
“I went from working out 5,6 days a week for 2 years to barely working out since the pandemic started. Now I’m in the worst shape I’ve been. I feel like I’m not the same guy that used to work out and eat well week in week out. Have you ever felt that way? From fat to fit to fat?”
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👉🏽 The key part of that I want to zoom in on is “I feel like I’m not the same guy”.
This shift of the sense of self can be powerful. It can sabotage you, or it can accelerate you. It’s one thing to feel like what you did in the past was challenging and thus feel intimidated by such commitments, but it’s another to feel like you are no longer someone who is capable of these commitments.
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Belief is your foundation. If you have done it, you can do it. If someone else has done it, you can probably do it. If many people have done it, you can almost certainly do it.
Building this into your identity is the most powerful source of “motivation” you will find.
You ARE the person who has done it, and will do it again.
You ARE a person committed to health and fitness – let your actions follow.
