I spoke this week about doing the hard thing…
For me, that hard thing is high intensity exercise. Specifically, Sprint Interval Training (SIT). Give me a set of dumbbells any day.
But if strength training is the secret sauce for women over 40 (and we all know it’s), then SIT is the cherry on top.
Here’s why.
🔥 SIT fires up our fast-twitch muscle fibres -> these are the first to go with age or lack of use, and unfortunately steady state cardio just doesn’t do the job
🔥SIT improves our insulin sensitivity and fat-burning (when we’re not exercising), as well as lean muscle mass. All of which improve our body composition.
🔥SIT really bumps up our cardiovascular fitness and can also help to manage or improve anxiety.
These are all things I want.
But it doesn’t change the fact that I really fight it. It’s the one thing I find myself making excuses to avoid 🙄
So I decided (not long after creating my PAUSE / PAUSE flowchart I shared earlier) that I needed to stop avoiding and just do the hard thing. I needed a kick up the butt.
Guess what happened when I did?
It was all over and done with in 15minutes and I felt on cloud 9 afterwards and for the rest of the day!
How often does this happen? We do the thing we put off and then find out it was nowhere near as bad 🤷♀️