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At OYL, we make sure your workouts are TOO EASYY… That’s right. I don’t want you to do a hard workout when you first get started. I want you to build in the basic habit of showing up to the gym BEFORE you worry about the difficulty of your workouts, how much weight you’re lifting, how fast you’re going, or anything else workout related!
What do you struggle with most?
🅰️ Accountability & Consistency, or,
🅱️ The difficulty of a workout?
Put another way… once you get to the gym, it’s easy to workout and listen to your coach and do your personalized workouts, right? The hard part (and the reason most people start/stop their fitness journey so many times) is consistently showing up 4x every week.
So when you join CrossFit OYL, I absolutely could not care less about the difficulty of the workout. You can find hard workouts online anywhere. But the single most important number to me to track, is your attendances. No gym program works only 1-2x week.
We need to FIRST build the HABIT of going to the gym.
Once you’ve built 3-4x per week into your life and schedule and routine, then we can talk about increasing the your cadence to 4-5x per week. Which is a new challenge to your schedule, when to wake up or leave work, what time to make dinner, who’s picking up the kids from school?
You are up against a lot, so you need to make sure you are fighting the correct battle. And your first battle is the alarm clock, stress at work, and a busy schedule.
Fight The Right Battle (Not Your Workouts)
You need to make sure you are fighting the right battle! If you choose to fight the battle of the hard workout first, you’re creating multiple enemies. Not only is it hard logistically with a busy schedule, but it’s hard physically. Pick one battle at a time, and add up those micro-wins.
After we can get 4-5x per week consistently, most of the battle has been won. Then it’s just a matter of adding in some more intensity–more weights, more reps, more speed. But if you’ve been going to the gym for the last 6 months for 5x every single week, it means you’re likely somewhere around workout #100 by now. If you’ve done this 100x, then your body is ready for that intensity. In fact, it may have already started increasing your intensity and it just feels like the new normal!
But until then, 🛑STOP🛑 doing hard workouts. Hard workouts are not the goal, they’re the enemy. You’re actually making it harder on yourself to improve the one thing that matters most in the gym – consistency. Get off the fitness and diet yo-yo.
Build the habit of going to the gym 3-4x per week (then expand to 4-5x).
Then, and only then, you can achieve those weight loss, toning, and strength building goals.
But none of that happens unless you can first be consistent. Be consistent with easy workouts first.
In Joy & Health,
Coach Mike
Owner, CrossFit OYL
We are not a gym. We are a coaching mentorship program and we’d love to help hold you accountable in the gym, long enough so you can actually see the results you’re looking for. If you live near Haslet, TX, then come on in for a FREE chat! If you live elsewhere, we have a network of other gym owners, some CrossFit and some not. We want to help you find long term fitness. Just drop us a message below & we’ll help you find a gym and a program that works for your long term fitness goals!
