My son came home yesterday and said, “Oh, I forgot to tell you, Mum. I had an assessment due for health.”
He had to write a training program. For a sport of his choice. Warm up, conditioning, strength, skill-specific work, the whole thing.
I nearly cried. Not because he’d forgotten and left it to the last minute, that’s just how he rolls. But because that is my actual job. I write programs for a living. And my own kid had this due and forgot to tell me until it was already handed in.
All that aside, I realised I wasn’t disappointed that I didn’t get to help him make his assignment the best (he probably wouldn’t have let me anyway), it was that I missed out on an opportunity to do something I love doing 😂.
The truth is, I just love creating a program that provides a solution to a woman’s problem. Sometimes that problem is pain or injury, a lack of time / crazy schedule, or low energy. But the biggest problem a good program solves is mental overload.
The truth is, nobody actually wants to think about what to do. Not really. Most women have enough on their plate.
It’s why people show up to my classes instead of doing their own workouts in the gym. It’s why my one-on-one clients what their program tailored and sent to them so they can tick it off. It’s why I’ve got a tribe of women online, following a plan I have already thought through for them.
And it’s the same reason I’ve been eating the exact same food for three days in a row these past few weeks. I had tracked my protein and fibre for a few days because it had slipped and I used what I learned to build a simple 3-day eating rotation. Sure it’s a bit boring but I know I’m getting enough good stuff in and I don’t have to think about what I’m eating. It’s already decided. That’s the whole point.
If there’s something you want to change, in training, in food, in anything, my first question is rarely “what should I do.” It’s “how do I make this the default so I stop having to decide every single day.”
Plan it once. Make the good version the easy version. Let future-you off the hook.
Building a plan like that starts with a little data, which is exactly what I go deeper on in this week’s episode. It’s only 8 mins long so short and sharp. [LISTEN TO EPISODE 65 HERE →]​
What’s still taking up decision-making space in your life that could just be a default instead?
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