Recent heat wave brought a lot of people to the fit club I hang out a lot. Usually, these club is very empty and peaceful. Suddenly for few days it turned into a very busy place. All stations in the gym were busy. All lanes in the pool were used and people were sharing them and others were waiting for one to get open. The heat wave is gone and the fit club is empty again.
What happened? Fair weather exercisers. I have been noticing this pattern for few years now since I work in many fit clubs.
Fair weather exercisers
Fair weather exercisers are not fit, nor they are totally out of shape. They desperately want to get fitter, but somehow they lack the discipline. But when the weather gets really nice, something goes off in their head. They are starting again. This time for real. They will persist. But several days later, they don’t even realize what they promised themselves. They stay home or find something other to do until another set of nice days roll in.
Another interesting thing happens when there are too many nice days in the row, like for example a week or so of nice, warm, sunny days. Fair weather exercisers will certainly come and keep coming for few days, but after about 5 or 6 nice days they stop coming. What happened is, they realize that weather is just nice, it’s nothing special anymore. It’s just nice weather after all. The switch needs to be turned with a specially nice weather. And there is nothing special anymore about 7 straight nice, warm days.
Are you one of these people. Are you a fair weather exerciser. If you are, you are probably kind of fit, often sore, but you seem to be getting nowhere with your overall fitness. To bring it to the next level you need to stop being a fair weather exerciser. You have to make a commitment and stick with it. Very hard thing to do. Hard but not impossible.
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