We need fun. Desperately. We invent endless time and money sucking stuff like gender reveal parties, promposals, and smash cakes while lamenting the lack of time to exercise. Ideas to add fun to fitness instead of creating more nonsense that keeps us from it.
Learning the RMT Rope had the right amount of frustration and progress to make it irresistible. The fun and the benefit is in the right amount of struggle.
Getting the high score on a video game is a feeling you can now get by eating plants. See who can get plant-eating high score in your house!
Making fitness fun can be as simple as adding a single move from your favorite band. Or we can keep making it monumentally hard. Adding “Roth Kicks” to my workout adds a dash of fun.
When it comes to fitness, motivation is often missing the ‘e’ it needs to be successful. When motivation is lacking, you will also find a lack of emotion.
When your exercise is fun, you automatically work harder (without anyone forcing you to). We’ve always known this to be true intuitively, but now research shows it.
Let’s stop forcibly cramming so much “fun” into every life event (holidays, births, weddings, pets) that life no longer is fun. Let fun movement be an essential part of your life.
My random Human Lily Pad workout was “effortless effort” and somehow burned almost 500 calories while I felt like I was playing. The world is your fitness playground.
The OG snake oil was…snake oil. Now it’s available just about everywhere and comes in endless forms. It seems like everything is snake oil. But the fundamentals of a healthy and happy life haven’t changed.
Reflections on repeating the Presidential Physical Fitness Test of my youth in my 50’s and what this means for fun fitness.
