Don’t Chase Motivation

You are what you do everyday.

If you eat french fries every day then you’re a french fry right?

Well, I guess sort of…What that is really saying is that in order for us to create daily positive habits we have to be consistent and show up doing those specific things every single day. We can’t slack off, show up two days out of seven and expect to see any results. If we’ve learned anything over these last 10 years of the fitness industry boom its that there are no easy paths. “Lose weight fast”, “get skinny quick” gimmicks and schemes, are just that, something to trick you into thinking there is an easy way to your goals.

The difficult truth is that the road to your success is hard. The path is windy, it has ups and downs and a lot of times motivation isn’t the driving force in your sails. More often than not it is the determination to reach your goals that pushes you forward. It is the discipline that gets you out of bed on the fifth day when you could easily pull the covers up and go back to sleep. Motivation doesn’t exist 24/7 and gets a lot more fleeting the further along in your path you travel.

So we should just say screw it and move on right? Give up and go on eating french fries?

Hell no.

Instead, we look inside for that push. Running on the treadmill isn’t sexy after week one. But you know what is? Crushing your goals and expectations when you stick with it through those difficult times.

Putting on your new gym clothes doesn’t excite you by week three so pushing yourself to the gym at 5:30 pm after a full day of work is hard. So what makes you go? Knowing that you can earn your carbs that night by getting your sweat on.

There just isn’t that giddy feeling after a few months of consistently showing up and it definitely seems to waiver the most after we have had a few “low points” during training. Waiting to go to the gym until motivation strikes will leave you stuck on your couch listening to all the excuses your mind makes up for you on a daily basis.

Take the pressure off and just get moving even if you're tired, even if you don’t want to, even if your only chance to burn some calories is on a weighted vest walk with your baby and dog in tow. It doesn’t matter what it is, just that you do it. Every day, no matter what. Consistency is key and that daily discipline will continue your forward momentum towards all that you want to achieve.

Because none of us wants to be a basket of french fries. No, we want to be the role model for our family, for our kids, for our mother struggling with diabetes. We want to continue fighting towards our goals so that one day when we look back we can be incredibly proud of all the hard work we put into it. Nothing worth doing was ever easy.

So what do you want to be today? Go on, level up…we are waiting for you.