Do not get stuck in an all-or-nothing mindset. I first learned about this from David Greenwalt, a former coach and mentor of mine who helped me break the mysterious “single digits body fat” barrier in 2000. Understanding this made a huge difference with my progress!
Just because you can’t see it, doesn’t mean it is not happening. Sometimes you might be improving your health in less visible ways.
It seems there is a prevalent “either/or” mentality that can disrupt many programs. Either you are perfect, or you just give up. Either you train at exactly 4:30 a.m., or you simply don’t train that day. The either/or, or black and white syndrome, can interfere with a lot of progress.
Keith Klein, a well-known and respected nutritionist, has a great way of describing this. He compares it to a car. When you get a flat tire, what do you do? If you can, you change the tire. If you don’t know how, you have someone help. Eventually, you repair or replace the tire and move on.
So why is it, on nutrition programs, that people get a flat tire, then instead of fixing it and moving on, they insist on flattening all of the other tires as well? It is like taking a crow bar and smashing the car instead of saying, OOPS, there is a setback, time to move on.
This can be applied to working out as well. For example, someone might read that morning workouts are superior for burning fat. Without debating whether or not this is true, the either/or mentality would say that if you cannot get your workout done in the morning, why even bother.
In reality, working out in the evening is still better than not working out at all — you should train when you can do it consistently, and when you have the most energy. So if you cannot always train in the morning, why not go ahead and try it in the evening? Be flexible and don’t get caught in the black and white syndrome.
See also: I Can, I Can’t
Another example comes with rest between programs. People recognize the need to take some time off from training every once in awhile for recovery or sometimes even special “detraining.”
One complaint I get is, “It was so hard to discipline myself to get up at 4:30 a.m. to train. If I take a week from training, I will break out of that habit and not be able to start again.”
This is a great example, because let me rephrase: either I wake up at 4:30 a.m. to train, or I sleep in. Why not compromise? Why not spend that week waking up at 4:30 and then writing down new goals, or reading a new book, or taking a calm walk? Keep the schedule, keep the discipline, but let your body have a break! There are many other examples to follow, but the fact is, there will never be a perfect 8 weeks or 12 weeks or whatever time frame you design your program around.
Life happens, and obstacles appear. You can choose to have a rigid, inflexible standard for yourself, and allow the first bump in the road to derail your progress, or you can avoid the black and white syndrome, and adapt to changes while focusing on progress.
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