My 2nd read-through of Atomic Habits by James Clear got very spooky 5 weeks ago.
To understand, we have to go back to my high school wrestling team.
Every morning before school we’d report to the high school track to get our laps in.
It was part of the conditioning regime. I loved wrestling. I HATED running.
I hated running so much that I quit wrestling my senior year just so I wouldn’t have to run any more.
And it stuck with me. 30 years later and still loathe cardio.
I do it cuz ya have to. But I hate every second on the treadmill/bike/stairs… until 5 weeks ago.
We were on a short vacation and the hotel only had Peloton bikes in the exercise room. So I took my first cycling class with Kendall and I was H O O K E D!
I’ve done more cardio over the last 5 weeks than I have over the last 5 months.
I enjoy Peloton so much that I’m voluntarily doing extra cardio. I actually ENJOY cardio.
The eerie part to all of this is that my “pool book” during that vacation was James Clear’s Atomic Habits.
The day I got hooked on Peloton was the day I reread the chapter on his 2nd Law: “Make It Attractive”.
As in – if you want to create good habits, then make them attractive and enjoyable. Seek dopamine, avoid cortisol.
And then 2 hours later I found the thing that made cardio attractive and brought 30 years of cardio contempt to an end.
Spook kee kee kee kee kee kee
(I’ll give you $1 if you can name that movie reference.)
