Welcome to family feud. I’m your host SDA. The topic is Fit Lifestyle. We surveyed 100 people, the top 2 answers are on the board.
Question: What should you eat the night before a big race?
-The number one answer (with 95 out of 100 answers): pasta.
-Number 2: it doesn’t matter.
What does Matter?
I once won a road race the morning after getting drunk and falling down the stairs at Clery’s (long story).
There was no pasta that night either.
Results aren’t achieved the night before.
Results are achieved by what you do consistently every single day, i.e. habits. A habit is a repeated action that becomes an automatic behavior, with little to no thought. From getting out of bed and brushing our teeth to what and when we eat, these routine behaviors become part of us.
If you eat poorly for months leading up to the race one pasta dinner won’t effect the outcome.
But if you live a fit lifestyle, i.e. you work out consistently, sleep well, and don’t over stress yourself sometimes you can get away with drunken tomfoolery.
And that’s kinda the whole point isn’t it: getting away with dumb shit and telling a cool story.
You can put that on my tombstone btw.
Fit Lifestyle: The Broader picture
Your weight, your fitness and your mindset are a product of daily habits. One constructive gesture won’t tip scales.
Nor will a negative one.
Your body will always look and feel like the daily lifestyle you adapt, so choose wisely. Lifting weights, running half marathons and Yoga immersion all create an adaptation in your body: For better (strength, heart health, endurance, flexibility) and for worse (working out hard comes w it’s share of injuries, muscle stiffness, soreness and fatigue).
Lastly- you’re not stuck w just one lifestyle. I’ve inhabited a body primed for strength training, for endurance, and for yoga. None of those fit quite right by themselves so I created a hybrid: me.
Try on a new lifestyle, tailor it to what you like, and be amazed by who you become in the process.