Hello, everybody. Welcome back to the Primal Potential podcast. Welcome back to our consistency

365 series. I'm Elizabeth Benton. I wanted to tell you a story today. I was actually laughing

when I was thinking about it. But when I moved back from to New England from North Carolina,

I lived in North Carolina for like 16 years or so. My family is all in New England. I moved

back to New England. I spent a little bit of time in a little sea coast town that I love,

and then I moved to a different area because of a particular gym and the coaching at that gym

that I really wanted to be a part of. And I had a few fitness goals while I was there. I wasn't at

the time able to do double-unders, which if you aren't familiar with what a double-under is,

it's a jump rope move where you jump once, but the rope rotates under you twice on that one jump.

So every jump is two turns of the rope as opposed to a single under, which is what most of us

grew up doing with a jump rope where it's like every time you jump the rope passes under you once.

Well, double-under is every time you jump the rope passes under you twice. When I first started

going to this gym, I was determined to get double-unders. And so after every workout, I would stay behind

and I'd spend, you know, anywhere from five to 25 minutes working on my double-unders. And

it wasn't long, maybe it was a week or two of that, before a coach came up to me and said, hey,

I know that you are trying to get your double-unders and I love your commitment to this goal,

but what's happening is you're spending extra time reinforcing habits that don't work. So you're

actually getting better at not getting your double-unders because what we practice is what we get

better at. And so because I was unknowingly practicing with essentially crappy form,

ineffective form, I was getting better at that crappy form, at that ineffective form,

keeping me, though I was practicing, keeping me from getting double-unders, right? So what he said

was you'd be better off spending two or three minutes, working on developing really great form,

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