Hello and welcome to this episode of the ESG Fitness Podcast.

I hope this goes well because I've been up since five. It's now only five. So it's not

actually that long, but I'm feeling it today. I started getting up earlier and earlier to get

more and more done and I think sometimes, sometimes you have to accept that there is just a finite amount of energy

that you have to do stuff during the day,

like, and maybe it actually wasn't a time restraint as much as just literally don't have any more brain power to do anything.

But anyway, I'm very excited about this podcast and you should be too

because I think the topic is interesting and somewhat controversial.

So unlike me.

So today I want to talk about habits and I've definitely spoken about habits before

and I think generally in fitness we talk a lot about habits and almost give this notion that

all the hard things that maybe we're asking you to do at the start as coaches will just magically

become habits at some point and become so, so easy to stick to.

Almost effortless.

And I think this creates unrealistic expectations.

Hard things like getting in shape, staying in shape, building muscle, maintaining muscle,

not putting on weight in an obeseogenic environment, hard things will always require effort

and there is simply no getting around that. So telling people that it will just become a habit and it will become effortless isn't particularly useful and i don't know if that contributes somewhat to why maintenance is so hard because there's this expectation that it should be easy.

So my point here is that I feel many people have been fed a bit of a lie with the promise of habits.

And a lot of us in fitness promote the key to maintaining results as forming

these habits and it's become almost like the whole the holy grail is being able to create

maintain these habits and you just need to turn going into the gym and eating healthy into a habit.

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