🟣 10 years of training down the drain

I’m sick as hell.

Could be the winter flu.

Could be the bright idea I had to do a sea dip in November like a true Instagram Influenzer.

Either way, I’m on my arse.

Side note: why did I ever take breathing for granted? Turns out life is wildly better when you don’t feel like a compressed pug.

So yes, I’ve skipped my last few training sessions.

Which obviously means my decade of lifting has evaporated overnight and my biceps now resemble two melted candles.

Tragic.

Aaaaaand… not even slightly true.

Imagine if one week off the gym deleted ten years of graft???

I’d simply walk into the sea. Permanently this time.

But loads of clients come to me genuinely terrified that resting when they’re sick is going to ruin everything. And I get why. 

You’ve been conditioned to think fitness is this fragile, little six-week cottage cheese “lock ins” that collapses the moment you sneeze.

When you only view progress in 6, 8, 12 week chunks, a week off looks a decent chunk of that.

But if you view your fitness as part of your life? A week becomes a spec of dust.

Sure, in a fantasy world none of us would miss a session.

In this world? Life will forever and always not give a single fuck & put barriers in the way.

But with that - the problem isn’t missing a week.

It’s the dramatic unravelling that follows when you panic, declare yourself “off track,” and yeet yourself into a fortnight of cookies because you failed to be perfect.

Perfection isn’t the hard thing.

Staying consistent with what you CAN be consistent with when you’re a snotty puddle of human misery?

Such as keeping consistent with nutrition instead of shagging a bed of quality streets…

That’s the hard thing.

I’m currently living off naps and Lemsip. I’ll move again when I can breathe through both nostrils.

And I know because of the last 10 years of training history, I’ll be back to full strength and be pushing on in no time.

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Rachel