3 Thoughts on Fitness and Nutrition (March Edition)

3 Things meets Purposeful Strength. My favorite crossover. If you’ve been following along, you know sometimes I have a list of ideas that never fully come to fruition and don’t quite get the substance for their own piece.

Thus, the 3 Things was brought in.

3 Things that are in my brain, but don’t quite have the horses in the race. Combined, they make greatness.

Okay, maybe not greatness, but they make a decent newsletter…

1) It’s only worthwhile if you can do it every day of the week.

I recently posted on Instagram about this notion that consistency is greater than duration. I had a great follow up question…”how often defines consistent?’

Amazing question.

My answer without hesitation is every day.

If you start a new nutrition goal, can you sustain those habits every day?

If you start a new fitness goal, can you sustain those habits every day?

If you start a new lifestyle goal, can you sustain those habits every day?

If you can’t, it doesn’t mean that the goal sucks, but it means your strategy to achieve that goal sucks. Probably because it isn’t authentic to you.

And that matters.

2) Fitness isn’t aesthetics, but it can be if you want it to be.

I’m definitely one of those who will tell you that the way you look, or your aesthetics, does not define your fitness.

Because it doesn’t. That’s a fact.

But, I’m also someone who will tell you that if you want a bicep vein sneaking out of your t-shirt, rock on.

So, am I a hypocrite?

No. Because goals are unique to you. If you want your fitness goals to be aesthetic-based, great. Do your thing. But what I hope everyone can strive to appreciate is that your fitness is much more than you look, and even more than how you feel.

3) Your exercise routine should take into account your lifestyle factors, not the other way around.

This one may seem like a no-brainer, but more times than not, I’ve found that people are holding on to training variables that USED to fit their lifestyle causing a major stress on their current lifestyle.

Example. If someone used to workout before work, but now has received a promotion that changed their time in the office, that morning workout can be tough to maintain. Holding on to that morning time frame may feel right, but with the new schedule your workout was cut down by 20 minutes. You tell yourself it’s ‘better than nothing’ - which it is- but you now find that it’s harder to train as hard as you’d like causing your time in the gym to be not as fulfilling.

That’s one example, there are many, but the bottom line remains - Fitness variables (training time, frequency, type of training, etc.) is based off lifestyle factors, it all changes as you change.

Hoping these 3 Things sparked some fire for you all. Go kick some ass this week.

You got this.

-Casey