Treating Exercise Time as Sacred and Non-Negotiable

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This week in building health

Treating Health Time as Sacred

Even as a health coach, I find that it’s easy to let go of exercise time.

Ideally, I’d like to workout 3x a week- for about one hour. But the minute I get busy, it’s easy to push it aside. Looking back on the past week I have one 1-hour session, and one 30-minute workout. It got replaced by doing groceries and cleaning the house instead.

I know exercise is valuable, but it’s just too easy to put it off.

But exercising is such a high leverage activity for me.

• 1 hour of gym takes me from 0 to 60 minutes. And the benefits of that are immense.

• But an extra 1 hour of working takes me from 8 hours to 9 hours. It’s not the same gain.

I want to reframe my exercise time as the sacred-non-negotiable activity in my day.

• Block off the time during the week

• Tell my partner that I’m going to focus on nothing but exercise (be unreachable)

• Show up and do it

The mental benefits of it are more than worth it.

My favorite health things for the week

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Unlocking Your Potential: What it Means to Do Your Best

3 minutes | Shane Parrish

Doing your best isn’t about effort.

“Doing your best is about the position you find yourself in when you show up. Over the long term, the average person who constantly puts themselves in a good position beats the genius who finds themselves in a poor position.”

Health works this way too.

Focus on your environment and not on exerting willpower all the time.

→ Read the Post

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How to Rest Well

13 minutes | Psyche Guides

If you want to perform well when you exercise and work, then you have to know how to rest. In a culture that focuses just on productivity, knowing how to rest becomes a super power. Treat resting as a skill- practice doing it well and see how it can 10x your life.

→ Read the Post

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Resource | Examine.com

Someone shared this resource with me and it looks like it’s going to be a staple in my bookmarks.

It’s always tricky finding good information online (and search engines + AI chatbots aren’t making it easier right now)

Examine.com is the largest database of nutrition and supplement research I’ve found online.

When someone has a question about food or supplements, I send them here first.

→ Check out the site

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