Let’s use this excited energy of the New Year to encourage, not discourage.īe the light in someone’s fitness journey, not the darkness! What To Do About Your New Year’s Resolutions Let’s help them continue to “roll forward” with their goals and aspirations. Instead, let’s use this momentum gained by our friends or family. They are in motion, so let’s keep them in motion! Who are we to judge what time of year it is or if we agree that this random angle of the earth in it’s rotation around the sun is the best time to start something new or not. So when it comes to New Year’s Resolutions, we want to get excited for people who have made the initial, difficult step to overcome their resting inertia. Getting started is the hardest, but once it’s rolling, it takes significantly less effort to keep it rolling. Pushing a stalled car is the easy example here. Therefore, if an object is at rest, it takes much more energy to put that object into motion than it does to keep it going. And likewise, an object in motion will stay in motion unless an outside force interferes. Inertia is the physics principle that an object at rest will stay at rest unless acted upon by an outside force. “Good for you! You’re making a change!” is way better than “Well, you do know people usually fail within the first 2 weeks.” Which one would you rather someone tell you? Overcoming Inertia & Gaining Momentum If we tell them how likely they are to fail with their goals, or just be critical in general about their use of the New Year to get on track, we are reminding them of all the negative aspects of goal setting and resolutions. Let’s go back to the squad of New Year Resolution’ers. Instead, we would say “keep your arms straight”. If we tell someone “don’t bend your elbows” during a snatch pull, their brain turns on to thinking about bending their elbows. Same for when we are coaching fitness athletes. If you’re a baseball player and you go up to bat thinking “don’t miss, don’t miss, don’t miss”, you are way more likely to miss. This is simply instructing the client what you want them to do instead of telling them what not to do. Here at CrossFit OYL when we train our coaches, one of our guiding principles is the “coach the positive”. Culturally, we are so quick to judge and disagree with someone, we might actually be the reason they stop! Coach The Positive It may not be intentional, but by telling people that goal setting is bad, or pointing out that 147% of r esolutioners fail within the first week, that’s tearing someone down. But how many of you have seen the headlines about “Why New Year’s Resolutions Always Fail” or “Don’t Wait Til January” or just the general population’s dissension towards “resolutioners”? Lots of people set out their New Year’s Resolutions. It’s a changing of seasons and we all feel it. As we start 2023, it’s an easy time to reflect on the previous year and look ahead to the next.
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