We all need to be tested, and we all need to be less comfortable at times.
My journey of using the bike for the gym had another test today with the heavy rain, but once you decide you have made a commitment, then it’s easy not to back out of it, and it hardens my resolve, especially when I imagine people betting on me to fail and give in to the car or lifts.
Being on a bike makes me hungry again, takes me back to the days when life was much more of a grind, and when there were plenty of rainy cold days when I could be out all day in.
Making ourselves too comfortable doesn’t do us any good and makes us soft, and less resilient to potential challenges in life which surely will come at some stage or another.
Lofty exciting goals are great, but the process isn’t always glamorous to get there, is often riddled with doubt “shall we continue”, “shouldn’t we take it easy now”, “why out all the effort in, my friends don’t do it”, but great things and great health is only achieved through some struggle and some discomfort, and when we get through that apparent pain, we come out the other side MUCH better for it in ALL ways.
Great health does take some discomfort, it means you showing up sometimes when you don’t even want to, and it takes you realising that exercise will be the spark that can literally change your mood, change your state of mind and create a resilience in you perhaps you never thought you had.
