It Takes Time

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One of the biggest problems that people often have is that we want to see results fast. Especially when something is important to them.

Maybe they’ve gained a little bit of additional weight, and we want to see that weight come off. Or maybe it’s been several years since they participated in a sport or hobby, they remember what they used to feel like doing that, and they want that sensation back quickly.

The reality is that big, awesome changes take time, especially changes that we want to stick.

There are a lot of “get rich quick,” “lose weight fast,” and “learn this skill quickly” schemes and ideologies out there. The reality is that things that give us results fast, especially immediate ones, are rarely sustainable over long periods of time.
Whereas if we create consistency in habits that we can maintain over long periods of time, that leads to sustainable successes.

Strength Takes Time

If we look at something like developing strength, let’s say we want to add 50 pounds to our deadlift. We could go on a really intense strength training protocol, and adding that 50 pounds may happen in a relatively short period of time. But if we’re going from not training at all into heavy training, we could get to a point where we’re not recovering appropriately. We might put ourselves in a position to potentially pull a muscle or herniate a disc because we’re attempting to progress too quickly.

If we take that same idea of increasing our deadlift by 50 pounds and stretch it over a year and a half or two years, that becomes an incredibly realistic and incredibly safe progression.

That’s not to say that we can’t add 50 pounds quicker. Everybody is going to be a little bit different. People who haven’t really deadlifted a lot, once they figure out how to move appropriately and learn to move their body efficiently, can make great progress pretty quickly.

But realistically, over time, we have the best successes creating habits that benefit us in the long run. It's not only about adding that 50 pounds, but also being able to do it while pain-free, to move with good mobility, and being able to increase our health and strength in other areas of our lives.

Weight Loss Takes Time, Too

The same is true for weight loss. When we gain weight, we don’t gain 20, 30, or 40 pounds overnight. We certainly don’t even gain that amount of weight in a month or two, it takes time.

It’s usually coming on little by little. It’s a small decision here that’s made over and over and over again that allows us to develop that additional weight. Taking that weight off is going to be the same.

If we go on a very intense crash diet where we’re starving ourselves, or we’re doing something that’s incredibly different from what our bodies are used to, and that can create problems. We see those fast results, but if we didn’t develop the kind of discipline and habits that led to those results, they will almost certainly fade away quickly. We didn’t build a foundation underneath those results that would allow sustainability. That can be incredibly frustrating.

Build for the Long Run

As humans, we have thing that feel urgent, we have pain points. Things that we want to see change in our lives. It can be difficult to think: “I can definitely do this, but it may take me six months, 12 months, even years.” But if we develop systems and make progress in a safe, consistent manner, we allow ourselves to see those initial results we were looking for, and to keep making progress well past that into later years.

If you’re starting in your 20s now you’re developing strength and fitness routines and habits that keep us healthy and energetic, feeling good and pain-free into our 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s, and beyond. Because you’ve developed the habits and systems that are going to allow you to do that over long periods of time.

Instead of thinking about how you can find results quickly, as fast as possible, start thinking: How can you start to develop the habits, the systems, the protocols, and schedules that are not only going to allow you to reap the benefits and rewards of this training now, but also years to come?

That’s such an important place to find ourselves.

At Endeavor Defensive Fitness, our plan is to help you figure out those consistent habits, what the progression, style, and rate should be, and how we can take the goals you want to accomplish and put them on an appropriate timeline. Not only to feel those satisfactions, gains, and successes, but more importantly, to continue to have those successes and reach new goals well beyond the ones you currently have.

All of our classes are built in a way that allow us to meet the athletes where they’re at, work at a progression they need, and make adjustments focused on their specific goals. Importantly, we do it in a place where you have the support of other people, and you have the support of the coaches.

At Endeavor you feel at home in a community and in a place where when you come in, you know that you’re going to continue to grow and learn for years to come. We have several athletes at our facility who have been with us well over a decade. We have so many who have been with us three years, five years, seven years, and beyond.

They’re consistently finding progress.

If they run into speed bumps, we’re able to help them work through those speed bumps and make sure they maintain those healthy lifestyle habits. All while having fun in the process, learning new things, and safely pushing past perceived limits.

So, in conclusion: The “get rich” or “see success fast” schemes often come at the price of our long-term satisfaction and joy. It's better is to build systems and habits and create consistency that will not only give us results and benefits in the short run, but allow us to continue to reap benefits in the long run.

Having goals to set and look for is very important. It allows us to know where we want to go. The consistent healthy habits and community we create are more important than the initial goals themselves.