{"id":1120,"date":"2013-12-18T18:00:18","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T08:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/?p=1120"},"modified":"2013-12-15T17:24:49","modified_gmt":"2013-12-15T07:24:49","slug":"project-awesome-consistency-and-variety","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.daedalist.com\/conjunction\/2013\/12\/project-awesome-consistency-and-variety\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Awesome: Consistency and Variety"},"content":{"rendered":"

We have a fire in our belly, fanning the desire to be physically better<\/a> than we are now. So what do we do? Obviously, I got more active. I ran, I lifted, I went to my favorite Grit Strength class, and I danced. But the problem was making a habit that would stick.<\/p>\n

Consistency<\/h1>\n

For you to get any benefit out of anything, you have to keep doing it. If I could have lost weight by skipping one burger, I\u2019d be a stick insect. If I could improve my fitness levels by running once around the block, I might as well be Usain Bolt.<\/p>\n

But it doesn\u2019t work like that, as I conclusively proved with years of twice-a-week PT sessions. There is plenty of material out there that tells us we should move every day. The Australian Government suggest 30 minutes of \u201cmoderate activity\u201d every day<\/a>. Walking is generally suggested because it\u2019s something most of us can do, but that gets boring, and boring is the death of consistency.<\/p>\n

One good reason to do a 12-week challenge is you can break it into three phases: a month to break your bad habits, a month to create some good ones, and a month to reinforce them.<\/p>\n

They key is to find something that you want to do. I was lucky enough to find activities at the gym that I like, but I also made sure that I pulled finger and started doing something that I\u2019d been meaning to for the longest time: get back into lindy hop.<\/p>\n