Self Improvement
A community which focusses on improving yourself. This can be in many different ways - from improving physical health or appearance, to improving mental health, creating better habits, overcoming addictions, etc.
While material circumstances beyond our control do govern much of our daily lives, people do have agency and choices to make, whether that is as "simple" as disciplining yourself to not doomscroll, to as complex as recreating yourself to have many different hobbies and habits.
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Dear Weekly Improvement Megathread:
I would like to make an apology
Yesterday I promised to take a picture of the little screen on the elliptical machine after I was finished running on it for an hour
I fucked up and accidentally hit the stop button after about 35 minutes. I still ran almost a whole hour. The runtime of two episodes of the BBC comedy show Ghosts (2019), in fact. Burned almost 350 calories and slightly burned off some of the fear of going into the gym
Sorry for no screenshot. will post one soon. Still ran good though
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Good job keep going!
gotta make this routine is the key. twice a week is the current goal. fuck it, even 15 minutes twice a day as long as i can actually get in the gym I'll count as a win. i can always go longer later
Try to minimize ways that can prevent you from getting into the habit.
If you can't make it to the gym, maybe run outside?
PFFFFFT. i'd rather just head to the gym. It's on my way home from work so my plan was to toss my gym clothes in the back of my car and swing by after work. Should be able to muster up enough energy for half an hour on the elliptical there
Nice. After work workout is great to build routine.
Maybe its no problem for you, but the biggest thing that messed up my routine is when I forgot/"forgot" to bring gym clothes.