Fitness Quest
I’ve been doing the Nerd Fitness coaching program for 6 months. Now that I’m going to have to go to the office in person, and pay for gas, and probably buy a new car, and buy business-casual clothes that make me feel awkward, I kind of need the money I was spending on coaching for all those things. I wish I worked at the kind of place that was open to new approaches and remote/hybrid work but I don’t.
The coaching program was a useful commitment device for me. It helped me reign in my tendency to overdo things and then give up or get injured. I am working on my “something is better than nothing” mindset. Perfectionism can really be a massive hurdle in all areas of life but one of the places I’d really failed to address it was in my health and fitness goals. It’s funny how you can see the problem in one context but then, in another, you have to fight the fight all over again.
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Hopefully, I’m on the right path to go it alone for a bit because I really feel like the progress I’m making is about to start being more visible. I already feel a lot better.
I’m working to trust myself and not overdo it. I may try to start writing about my progress here. That has worked for me as a commitment device before. But I’m not sure that a fitness quest is a particularly interesting read. I’m not going to have magic bullets because I don’t believe they exist. It’s going to be the story of a person who struggles with consistency trying to make tiny changes and not get frustrated and give up.
But I’m not sure. I may need a pen name. How about Bōdy Jenedict? Nobody will figure that one out. I used to be way more comfortable writing about all my flaws publicly. The world feels less forgiving these days.
