Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone

Hey it’s your coach! Listen up!

 If you’ve slumped into a comfortable spot on your couch as your reading this and have been wearing the same pair of sweats all week let’s shake things up a bit! Get a little uncomfortable! Do something different! Maybe you have been heading out for a walk around your neighborhood once a day. The same walk, at the same pace with the same number of steps. Good job getting out! Now let’s push to improve!

Your comfort zone is where things are easy--they don’t feel like work or like an effort. Guess what--if it seems easy and “comfortable” you are probably not making forward progress especially when it comes to your health and fitness. To get your body to change you have to get it to do what it is not used to. Pretty quick your body adapts and gets used to that loop around your neighborhood. 

And when it comes to your nutrition habits, the foods you eat to improve your health might take some effort to plan and prepare (and, if your schedule is busy, that may not come easy).  If you don’t feel like you have to go against your usual routine, then you probably are not going to see big changes in the way you look and feel. You have to do something different from what you are currently doing to get your body to change. Get used to going outside of your comfort zone and challenge yourself to do it on a daily basis. I didn’t say really “hard” or “unbearable”, just outside of your usual comfort zone. 

Time To Take action. If your usual routine is to end your day lounging on the couch with your favorite food mindlessly noshing, checking out from your day watching TV or worse the news, get out and do something instead! Go for a walk, call up a supportive friend, or write in your journal. These habits can easily be changed starting now. Think about what habits you have, that are keeping you from making the improvements you are after when it comes to your health & fitness!

You got this!