Once You Pop, You Just Can’t Stop
Have you ever had to push a car that ran out gas or had the battery die? Can you remember how hard it was to get that vehicle moving? Once it started moving, wasn’t it much easier to maintain its momentum? That’s inertia baby! Either creating motion of a static object or stopping the motion of a moving object.
Inertia is a very powerful force. Without getting too geeky with the physics, it takes much more force to start or stop motion than it does to maintain motion (aka momentum).
Think about your daily habits. Its easier to maintain your routine than it is to create a new one. Routine is easy and new habits take energy. Routine can be mindless, new habits take focus.
These are especially true of your fitness habits.
It’s easier to go to the gym and run on the treadmill for 30 minutes than to strength train. The treadmill takes care of everything for you. You just hop on and hit the green button. Strength training takes some thought & planning. What exercises, how many reps, how much weight all go into strength training.
It’s also easier to sit on the couch and watch TV than it is to go for a walk or play with your kids in the yard.
We often choose the easy way out. We say we’ll go to the gym or lift weights or play with our kids tomorrow. But guess what? Inertia takes over. Everyday it gets easier to follow our habits and avoid changes.
But we all know what it best for us don’t we?
Start tomorrow.
Put a little effort into creating new habits. Healthy habits. It will take work and maybe more effort than you are used to. You might have to force yourself to keep doing it for a week or two or three.
Don’t give up!!
Cause guess what will happen when your new habits start to become routine?
It will be harder to break those beneficial habits than it will be to sustain them.
And that’s the goal.
So build a new life, one new habit at a time.
