If you do vigorous exercises often and you stop for a while, the day you pick up again won’t be as you used to. What I mean is, if you take time off exercise like squatting or stair climbing for a period like 2 months and you want to start again, your muscles will need to adapt and you will feel some discomfort.
When I was playing football constantly, I hate to take weeks off because my bones and muscles would relax so much and when I start again, I will face a few days of muscle discomfort. But the only way to get the discomfort to relieve is to continue doing the exercise. Sometimes, I ask myself, why would doing the same things fix a problem caused by the same thing?
Something is going on here. The more you repeat something, the less they will have effects on you.
For instance,
You started an exercise routine of jogging for 20 min and doing 20 sit-ups twice a week. At first, this will build up some muscles on you, but after some months, 20 minutes jogging and 20 push up won’t build any muscle again. This is because your body gets used to the 20 min jogging and 20 push and you have to do more to get something new.
If you are a type that takes paracetamol for every slight headache, when it gets to a point, paracetamol would not affect to heal your headache again.
If you take a bottle of alcohol for the first time, it may intoxicate you so some minutes or hours, but when you take it constantly for months, the quantity of the alcohol will stop affecting you. You may need to take more to get intoxicated.
The 3 keys here.
Doing the same thing constantly won’t give you any progress. Many people mistake consistency with this. They say I am consistent with my work, and I don’t want to miss it. Consistency is a thing; moving and doing more is another thing. If you have a company and you make 5 calls a day to reach some potential customers, you might need to increase this overtime. If you publish blogs twice a week and get some suitable rewards, you might need to push to 3.
Question yourself- There are some questions you may need to ask yourself. What progress have I been getting in this? Am I stagnant or moving slowly. Do I need to cover more spaces? Then you have to do more.
Doing it little by little will reduce the pain of a difficult time.
Building yourself by starting with something you can manage would help you build easily. Imagine you want to jog and build some muscle, and you start on Monday with 15 minutes jogging, and 10 push up and continue on Thursday with 17 minutes Jogging with 12 push up, you will not feel much of pains if you continue with this progressively.
Doing the same thing every day and want to get a better result is absurd. You’ve got to do more!