Healthy Habits Challenge: One Week To Go!

With a week to go in the Healthy Habits challenge, it seems worth a check in: how’s it going?

Based on the number of stickers on the wall, it looks like many of you are having some success finding ways to alter your routine, and in doing so earning shiny stickers and moving towards better habits.

Others are a bit more spotty, indicating there may be room for some continued focus on these new habits. So often I see people struggling to create new habits because they think they lack sufficient willpower, or because they need to try harder, and while occasionally that may be true, more often I think it comes down to one of two things:

1. You don’t actually want to change the habit. If you’re realizing this is you (I’ll keep my coffee thanks!) it’s ok to accept that you’re happy with your current lifestyle, keep your mind open to whether it’s becoming an issue later on, and move on. 

2. You need a better plan. For people who find themselves desperate for a coffee mid afternoon, and cave on the caffeine challenge - maybe they needed to commit to an earlier bedtime, or doing less overnight phone checking, or somehow getting more restful sleep. Maybe you cave on the sugar challenge because you forgot to plan ahead and bring lunch (or maybe you forgot lunch altogether). In this case, see if you can identify a common precursor to a “lapse in willpower” and change your strategy a bit during this final week. 

While there’s only a week to go in the challenge, this is the first week of the rest of your life. Are you firming up a habit that will improve your lifestyle for good? Or could you stand to recommit to making this the first week of the rest of your life?

Let us know how we can help!

WOD For 01-27-20:

For Time:

42-30-18 of

KB Swings @ 70/53 lbs

21-15-9 of

Burpee Box Jump Overs @ 24/20 in (must face the box)

-then-

Tabata:

Med Ball Russian Twists @ pick load