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Members10) Be flexible
The best plan is one that's easy to stick to.
The number one roadblock to making progress is falling off.
Falling off can happen for many reasons. Life gets in the way. Being consistent is hard. We naturally want to trend towards a lower energy state.
Many people find success because they stick to a rigid system. Rigid systems work well as long as they can be adhered to, but we're playing long games. Any system that diverts your energy into doing things in ways that you wouldn't typically want to operate creates a tension. That tension is going to be constantly pulling you toward your tendencies.
The problem with rigid systems is that once you fall off, it can be hard to get back on.
Instead, allowing your system to be flexible and composable enough to meet your lifestyle is going to lead to greater sustainability.
How do you build in flexibility?
Composability allows you an essentially infinite number of possible combinations of workouts.
If you've done an exercise for several weeks and you don't find it enjoyable or effective, get rid of it. Swap in another similar exercise and continue making progress.
Understand that your body really only cares about calories, carbs, protein and fats. It doesn't know where those macronutrients are coming from. This unlocks an incredible amount of flexibility. If you don't like chicken breast, broccoli, and rice, you can have pork, squash, and beans. As long as the macros are the same, your body don't know the difference.
Forcing yourself into eating the same thing every single day makes the outcomes more predictable, but you're more likely to hate the process. If you can achieve 80% of the results with 20% of the anguish, why would you subject yourself to unnecessary suffering?
Whether or not you make significant progress has more to do with consistency over long periods of time than intensity.
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