Embrace the Obvious
One of the take away from the first couple of chapters from Dan John’s new book ‘Attempts’.
The idea that most people overlook the obvious solutions to their problems in many areas of life, especially when it comes to their health and fitness.
If you’re overweight, are you eating too much and not exercising enough?
If you’re always tired, are you staying up late watching Netflix?
If you’re not strong, are you training hard enough?
These points may seem super obvious, but that’s the point.
Many people won’t accept the obvious answers to their problems.
They would rather explore complicated solutions before actually looking at the obvious fix.
If the obvious solution doesn’t fix it, then yes, look at something else.
I’m still working towards performing a front lever – the reason I haven’t achieved this yet is because I haven’t done enough specific training for it, which is obvious.
In almost 20 years of training clients I have yet to find someone that can’t get in shape or lose some body fat by cleaning up their diet and following a good training programme.
People will avoid the obvious because it means they have to suck it up and deal with it.
It means they can’t hang on to the idea that somehow the rules are different for them or that they are a special case.
I know there will be someone thinking “but I know this guy who XYZ and can’t lose weight” but for 99% of the population, the obvious works – embrace it.
Coach Milligan 