change

I find that the key to long-lasting commitment to exercise rests upon this one central factor called change. Change is what keeps the mind and body constantly wanting more and always feeling satisfied after surviving a new experience. It is change, and change alone, that allows us as individuals to feel accomplished.

Time and time again, we hear of those attempted exercisers who were once set upon living a physically healthy lifestyle, but ultimately failed after becoming “burnt out”. This is simply the result of the wrong approach. They whole-heartedly dove into something completely blind, and as a result, sunk to their final resting place of their original life-style, never to take the slightest dip back in again. Life is change and change is what we need to sustain ourselves. We as people feed off of change in our lives, whether it be a new job promotion, knowledge of a baby to come, or the death of a close loved one. The lives we have come to know are constantly evolving. We have no solitary mindset as we continually adapt to the transformation that is our lives. And so we must apply this to our ambitions as well.

If your ambition is to become fit, then the only means of obtaining that goal is to operate through change. You really can work out every day if you choose to, but you must change it up. Get in half an hour of cardio on the elliptical on Monday, take an aerobics class on Tuesday, play tennis with a friend on Wednesday...just don’t limit yourself to the same relentless activity day after day. Keep up with your life’s continuous changes and you will find your mind and body making alterations to this change, but never relaxing upon a single one. Each day will be different, and a new sense of satisfaction will arise within its completion. Change is not a simple thing, but if we try, we can make it one.