In order to be consistent with your health and fitness goals, you have to have a level of acceptance that the process will and should have an element of boredom most of the time.
If you want good dental health, you brush and floss the same way every day – you don’t get bored, you understand the process is the process and it works.
For the average person looking to maintain good health, strength, body fat and fitness levels – 90-95% of your training will be showing up, doing the basics for weeks, months and years.
Yes, we will change the stimulus, change the sets and reps, change hand position and use different variations – but on the whole you’ll be doing very similar exercises for months and years and you will reap the rewards.
Same with your diet – yes you can experiment now and again but on the whole the stuff that works is the ‘uncool’ things. More water, more veg, more protein.
Obviously if you’re training and nutrition is boring you maybe less inclined to stick to it – which obviously isn’t ideal.
What will work long term is the acceptance of doing the fundamental stuff 80-90% of the time whilst adding in some more ‘exciting’ strategies just to break it up. A good coach will programme this balance effectively.
Most people are looking for the inverse – they are looking for the novelty factor before getting stuck into the basics.
If you want results stick to the basic fundamentals. If you want to be entertained focus on the fads and gimmicks.
Coach Milligan 