Hello everyone, I want to start a new habit and I’m wondering if it’s possible to begin right away with very high intensity and do this activity every day. If so, how? And if anyone has succeeded in doing this, could you share how you did it? I’m really reluctant to start small and gradually increase because I’m in a hurry and don’t have much time; it needs to go hardcore right away.
Please clarify, what is the activity or habit you want to start doing?
If its something like weightlifting or exercise, it is definitely NOT recommended to just jump in with extreme intensity if its new to you as you’ll almost certainly injure yourself.
Other activities may be optimally suited to incremental progress.
Impossible to comment further without more info.
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Basically, it was bodyweight training, except that my goal was to train several times a day. I’d tried it several times but to no avail the next day, I couldn’t go on, I felt far too tired, but I felt that in real life it was possible.
Then there’s also reading all day long, but doing it several days in a row while using memory techniques.
In David Goggins’ book, when he had to lose weight and only had 3 months to lose a significant amount, he managed to train very intensively. He would do things like 2 hours of cycling, swimming, running, endurance weight training until the end of the day. He kept doing this and he himself said that by the time he went to bed, he felt a fierce anxiety, even depression, but he used it as fuel. He clearly says that he somehow absorbed it, and it allowed him to continue. So, for one, I didn’t understand what he meant by absorbing this negative energy.
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If you’re going to do bodyweight training intensely and often, you must not hurry the technique.
Yes, you can reduce the time between repetitions of the technique, but if you’re just starting then your nervous system must be trained to do the technique properly.
If you go hard without allowing time for the nervous system to properly learn the new physical routines, injuries will follow.
Allow your body to adjust to new physical routines by being deliberate and slow at first. It’s okay to mix in some quick motions too, but too many will result in your body repeating unnecessary movements that will use excess energy and exert unnecessary physical tension in tendons/ligaments which results in potential damage.
Why are you training?
What’s your hurry?
If you don’t complete this bodyweight training routine in a certain amount of time (say… 3 months), will you lose a huge opportunity (like qualifying to be a Navy Seal, for instance)?
What are the stakes?
The human body is capable of incredible things when the stakes are huge.
What are your stakes?
This is probably pedantic of me, but what does this statement mean?
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About 4-5 years ago, I used to do 100 push-ups every day without any rest days, and I did them very quickly. Despite this, I felt that my body had gotten used to it, even though the pain was no longer a problem.
I see what you mean, but unlike Goggins, I don’t have any exams to take or anything like that. It’s just for me, to get used to extreme discomfort.
To be more precise, I used to train more than 10 times a day, but unfortunately, I couldn’t complete a full week. After 3 days of doing this, I would give up. When we see this in manga, we think that this kind of training only happens in fiction where the main character succeeds. In reality, I don’t know anyone who can do this except Goggins.
Even in anime, the characters have stakes.
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I understand better now, thank you very much.
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