When I sweat in the gym and people ask me ‘does exercise ever get easier’ I have a simple answer: ‘no’. Exercise is not supposed to get easier; when this happens it means that you are not working hard enough and are not getting fitter. If you find exercise easy do yourself a favour and increase the intensity; or leave the gym and go to the nearest coffee bar instead.
Life and exercise are very much alike in this – neither of them is worth it when it gets easy. Is your life easy? If it is, step up a gear!
PS: Yes, this is me at Brighton marathon; 100 m from the finish line and it hurts!
Go to the coffee bar instead. I like running to the coffee bar. It kills 2 pots with 1 cup. 🙂
@Jai: Please promise me you will continue stopping by! Never fail to make me laugh – two pots with one cup…
Good point…if it is easy, you are not doing enough.
@Pam: Yep! We should stop dreaming about it gettin easier – no excitement.
That’s an important point that goes across all aspects of life. Use it or lose it. Raising my game is something I have to work at.
@Pat: Novelty and pushing boudaries – let’s watch little chidren; they always push…
This was a great admonishment to get out of one’s comfort zone!
@Roshawn: It was meant to be a ‘gentle nudge’. But I can do admonishment as well.
A full marathon? That’s really impressive! I did a half one a few years ago and that was enough of a challenge for me.
@MUM: I have done several, in fact. Loch Ness was the most beautiful and hardest. Now I want to move to ultra-marathons but John is treatening to leave me if I do; or up my life insurance :smile:.
It doesn’t get easier but it does get more enjoyable 🙂
@Andrea: True! It is more fun in a very special, masochistic kind of way.
Does working out at the gym and then coming home and have a few beers hurt? 😀
@Aaaron Hung: Yep! They hurt separately but together it can in fact be much worse 😀 .
Congrats on the marathon! Excellent advice about exercise and life! We should continually challenge ourselves to grow to our full potential 😀
@World of Finance: …and beyond 😎 .
This post makes me want to go the extra mile and achieving my goals. It also makes me want to set higher goals. I agree, when your exercises get easy you need to increase the intensity or add more weight.
@YFS: Thanks – glad it worked.
It’s important to think about stretching ourselves outside our comfort zones and our current level of accomplishments. Good analogy, using excercise being easier as a need to step up the intensity. A little comfort zone time is ok, but then we’re primed for push forward to better things.
@Squirrelers: Yep and thanks for reminding me: recovery is essential in both exercise and life. Also thanks for stopping by.
Interesting. You would think easy would be a good thing. I do agree though. We need to constantly challenge ourselves and learn new things. We are never going to run out of things to learn in our lifetimes.