Hey there First name / friend !
Tiffany here today and I’ve got a little story for ya.
As you may remember from a few weeks ago, since ending the craziness of the school year, I’ve been digging into my gym routine.
On Tuesdays and Wednesdays, my current assignment is to do a mixture of rowing and running. A couple of weeks ago, I got on the rower to do my 20 min, pushed off, and was like “Dear God! This is so resistant!” It was on max resistance… but you know what I did? Told myself it would be ridiculous to change it and “give up”, “You can do hard things, Tiffany!”, so I kept the resistance at 10.
So dumb.
Every pull felt like more of a struggle. Instead of focusing on the movement, I was fighting a lot of negative self talk like, “Why can’t you do this?”, “Why is this so hard?”, “Why are you struggling?”
What’s worse is that I went about 300 less meters than my best even though I worked about 5X as hard.
Come last week, I got on the rower and adopted a different mindset. I put the resistance back to 5 and focused on consistency of speed and movement. I didn’t try to motivate myself to do something extraordinary. (That’s really hard sometimes, isn’t it?)
Andddd I rowed 200 meters past my personal best.
This was yet another reminder that consistency wins. Every. Freaking. Time.
It’s the same thing for practice.
When you can’t rely on motivation, you have to rely on consistency. But as we’ve talked about so much, motivation RARELY COMES FIRST!!!! Consistency will bring back your motivation. When you look at the calendar and realize you’ve done the difficult practice exercise you hate for 3 weeks in a row, I guarantee it will be motivating to you. And if you see progress? Well, that’s the ultimate motivator.
For a few tips on staying consistent + more, check out this week's blog post!
