When you start exercising, there’s an age-old idea that you can only increase your load (or volume) a couple of percent per week.
It takes the body time to adapt to the new stimulus – if you were to go all out and increase your load by 50% in 3 weeks, you are going to end up in trouble (or at least a lot of pain).
Generally speaking, this is very true.
The flip is, it’s not just our body, but our nervous system that also takes time to adjust to the stimulus. And not just for exercise.
In work, relationships, habits… We can make changes, but if we find they are rapid and radical, the shift can be too big, and we fall back, as it is perceived as too much of a stressor.
Like in our training, perhaps it’s the slow accumulation that is key – showing up each day, allowing the nervous system to feel calm and safe, despite this new increase in work-load or change in patterns.
Maybe you starting a podcast, writing more, or expanding your network…
It’s often not the conscious mind that we are working with, but our subconscious, or our perception, that dictates whether this new thing we are doing is going to stick or not.
Consistency and persistence. Some things take time.
