It has always seemed so illogical to me that people want to make changes in their life but decide to wait for a specific calendar day to start them. I think thats a big reason why most people fail to follow through on their resolutions because if you really wanted to make that change, you wouldn’t wait until January 1st to do it.
Exactly what my therapist said when I was talking about drinking less in the new year. She just said, why not just start small now and do smaller beers or different kind of drinks when you go out instead right now? Honestly made too much sense. Kinda wild that I didn’t think about it until then.
I think the all or nothing mentality is really holding a lot of people back. I know I can’t do that kind of thing personally and always build my habits slowly. Want to go full veg? Give up one animal a month. Want to learn woodworking? Add one new tool (and only one!) each project. Want to run every day? Start with once a week and build. Also don’t get all flustered if you miss one. Just do it the next day, don’t consider yourself defeated and give up.
I did this today, for this exact reason.
Typically I’ll find home workouts for the first 3 weeks of the year, or go at known low times in the day
Yeah my bouldering place is super crowded for 2-3 weeks, but luckily/sadly they give up fairly quickly…
Yup.
The first three weeks of the new year are really crummy if you’re a gym regular.
Every January, the same thing. I don’t mind going, as I help around with advice. Some of the people decide to stick to it. Some, never had any intention - they come, snap a few selfies in their newly bought gym gear and then I never see them again.
I have a home gym now, but when I was a regular, it was always aggravating.
Part of you wants to root for these people, but so many are rude or don’t treat the space with respect and leave trash everywhere, so you find yourself just counting down the days until 90% of them quit. (And then you root for the ones who get with the program and learn to behave appropriately.)
I found a loophole. Join a 24/hour gym. I was there at 11PM and it was fantastic.
Oh hell yeah.
The night shift at a 24-hour gym is the fucking best if you can swing it with your schedule and energy.
Mornings at the gym are the best, honestly. I get the whole place basically to myself.
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Maybe some. But most of the regulars will be there no matter what. Crowds won’t cause them to skip it. That’s why they’re regulars.
But also, New Year’s Day was a Thursday this year. The crowds aren’t going to show up until Monday next week when everyone goes off vacation mode.
And it really isn’t that bad unless you’re trying to use one of the cardio machines - those things will be humming next week lol.
That’s been my experience at one of the more expensive gyms anyway. Planet Fitness regulars may be cooked for a few weeks.
As a veggie lover all my kale, spinach and such are out of stock too :(!
Omg is that why all my usual veg were sold out today?
Yip! I notice it every year haha
I do a lot of road cycling and yesterday there were a lot more runners out than I usually see. It should taper off in a week or so.
All of January, really.
I went rock climbing yesterday, only a fraction of people than usual. I assume they were all hung over from the other day
Rock climbers and boulderers are a different breed.
Thanks 😎
What region of the world are you in if you don’t mind me asking? I’ve noticed that some people refer to bouldering as separate from rock climbing rather than as a subcategory.
West eu. Not just treating it as such, it really is. In my country there are more boulder gyms than full on rock climbing gyms
I think there’s usually going to be more bouldering gyms just because they’re easier to build.
In general over here in the western US we’ll use rock climbing to refer to both. Usually we’ll just say sport climbing, top rope, lead, to refer to rope climbs.
We have both here, but bouldering is just more popular. Before most cities only had top rope, but over the past few years boulder gyms are being build in huge sums
The (BC Pacific) ocean swim group usually has 2 or 3 people show up. Today had 12. I’ll bet Monday is back down to the usual number.
