Talk about fitness exercises

The core reason why most people cannot persist in fitness and achieve results is never poor willpower, but rather being kidnapped by a standardized "fitness template" from the beginning, turning the exercise that should serve them into another KPI to be completed.

Last week, when I was changing clothes at the front desk of the gym, I met a girl wearing brand new peach pink fitness clothes. The glitter on her nails was still shining. She was squatting in the corner and sighing while holding on to the wall. He said that after practicing with a certain blogger with millions of followers for two days to raise his buttocks, he now has to drag himself down the stairs. He grinned in pain when he sat at the workstation. Not only did he not see his hip line rise by two centimeters, but now he gets scared when he sees dumbbells. Looking at it reminded me of the time when I first started working out. I followed Pamela's trend and danced for three days. In the end, my knees were filled with fluid and I couldn't squat down. I even had to sit on the toilet seat in the toilet.

Nowadays, fitness content on the Internet likes to give standard answers: you must practice five days a week, you must practice for a full hour at a time, you must eat boiled chicken breasts and broccoli every meal, and a body fat rate of less than 15% is not considered an introduction to fitness. But who stipulated it? I know a big guy in the fitness circle who takes 20 minutes every day to practice three compound movements at noon. The weight is sufficient and the capacity is sufficient. After the exercise, he goes back to the company canteen and gains 10kg of muscle in half a year. The effect is much better than those who spend two hours in the gym every day. ； Uncle Zhang, who runs every day in the park below his home, is 62 years old this year. He has never touched a dumbbell or barbell. He runs around the lake for 30 minutes every day. After five years of running, he has retired from all three high schools. Last week, he went to climb Mount Huangshan with the boys and he was not out of breath. The two methods are completely different. Who can you say is wrong?

A topic that has been particularly hotly debated on the Internet before: Should I do aerobics first to lose fat? Muscle gainers say that if you do too much aerobics to lose muscle, you must first pump iron. ； Nutritionists also say that a large number of people should do low-intensity aerobics in the early stage to protect their joints, otherwise deadlifts and squats will easily wear out their knees. When I wanted to run a half marathon last year, I ran stupidly every day. After a month of running, I developed iliotibial band syndrome. I couldn't bend my legs. It took me two months to recover. Later, I trained my hip and leg strength with a rehabilitation practitioner for three months, and my knees no longer hurt when I ran again. In the first half of this year, I successfully completed the marathon. To be honest, there is no absolutely correct order. It all depends on your current physical condition and needs. You have to apply other people's templates to yourself to avoid injury.

Others struggle with the issue of "clean eating". In order to reduce body fat, I only added a little salt to every meal I cooked. After three months of boiling, my body fat dropped to 16%. As a result, I couldn't walk around the egg tarts in the bakery. I ate desserts for half a month, gained ten pounds, and almost developed an eating disorder. Later, after asking a friend who is a nutritionist, I learned that as long as the total daily caloric difference is controlled within 300 calories for ordinary office workers, eating hot pot milk tea twice a week will not affect them at all. On the contrary, they will not be prone to overeating due to too much depression. Now I have adjusted to eating the company cafeteria normally at noon, adding a kiwi fruit in the afternoon, and eating less white rice and noodles in the evening. I have lost eight pounds steadily in three months, and my body fat remains at about 18%. All the physical examinations last week were normal, and I look good in a skirt. Isn’t it better than eating boiled vegetables every day?

Damn, after all, we ordinary people are not going to compete in fitness, so there is no need to fight against ourselves. On days when I feel good, I go to the gym to do two sets of shoulder presses. After doing leg exercises, I walk down the steps shaking my head the next day and my colleagues ask me if I went to the disco. It doesn’t matter. ； If you don't want to move any day, you can just go home and eat half a watermelon without feeling guilty. Asking friends to go hiking or playing badminton on weekends, or even walking downstairs for half an hour after dinner every day, is better than lying down and watching fitness videos so anxious that you can't sleep.

Fitness is a game you play with yourself. Being comfortable is the only standard answer.