How To Develop A Consistent Exercise Routine

Many, many goals were set at the beginning of lockdown and miserably failed just a few weeks in.

Setting goals is exciting. You can be as ambitious as you like, and can only imagine how you’ll feel upon achieving that goal. Which is often filled with greatness and an elating sense of achievement.

The one thing that is never considered though is how you’ll feel during the process of trying to achieve that goal.

When you’re sat on your nice snug and soft sofa, with your fluffy dressing gown on and with nothing left to think about other than whether or not you’re going to have Ben and Jerries or a bowl of coco pops, it’s easy to set unrealistic goals and feel highly motivated and optimistic about them.

Because you’re currently in a very lovely and ideal situation, warm, fed, relaxing, food, TV, almost sleep time.

A bit like how when you’re hot, you can’t even imagine what it feels like to be cold, and vise versa.

We struggle to imagine and empathise with a different physiological or psychological state that we’re not currently experiencing.

And when you are all relaxed and warm and comfortable and all the other adjectives that fit that description, deciding to run 25 miles a week, meditate for 20 minutes everyday and…