Nsima Inyang

A big excuse for aspects of fitness is time.

Like when I was a personal trainer and I would try to get people to become my client, they'd be like, oh, but Nseema, I don't have time.

And I'd be like, we make time for the things that are important to you and all this, but,

With this practice, if you start to change aspects of your life around your health and your movement, and you create an environment that feeds movement so there are things around that you can interact with.

This comes from James Clear's Atomic Habits.

Keep things around that you'll actually do.

When you put the guitar in the closet and you're trying to actually get better at guitar, you won't grab the guitar from this closet.

If the guitar is sitting there in the living room and every time you look at it, you realize you haven't touched that thing in 30 days, you're probably gonna start picking it up, right?

So keep things around that encourage you to move.

Maybe you don't do it every day, but every day you pass by that pull up bar that's on your door, you're gonna start telling yourself,

Let me do a few pull-ups.

And then you'll start to get good at pull-ups.

And then you'll start to gain some muscle.

And then every time you go through that door, you'll do 10 pull-ups, 15 pull-ups, 20 pull-ups.

That's what I did as a kid.

And now I still have pull-up bars on different doors in my house.

I keep rings in my living room because I'm really trying to get better at my gymnastics skill.

It's a weakness of mine.

So I want to improve.

And the only way I know I'm going to improve is if I frequently touch the skill.