Habits and consistency: how showing up becomes automatic
Consistency is not a personality trait. It is a set of decisions you make once and then stop re-making: when you train, where you train, what happens on the day it all falls apart. These articles cover the habit ideas we come back to most, including why the environment usually beats the intention.
Nobody quits training because the program was wrong. They quit because a Tuesday got busy, then a week did, and the gap got easier to keep than to close.
This is the writing about closing that gap. Never miss a Monday, the 168 hour rule, big rocks, the law of diminishing intent, and the plain argument that your environment decides more of your behaviour than your motivation ever will. It is written for people fitting training around work, kids and everything else, which is most of the Virtus Family.
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