Fitness Hack – Find the Thing You Can Love
The Amplified Impact Podcast
December 24th, 2023
I’ve been thinking a lot about fitness and health lately, and I’ve got a major tip for you.
Want to stay in top shape, full of energy, and live a long, healthy life?
Here’s what I’ve learned from my journey as a former athlete and my current fitness routine. It’s not just about discipline…it’s finding an activity you love.
I’ve always stayed fit because I loved what I was doing. For me, it’s tennis, jiu jitsu, and lifting.
But the key is to find something that feels like play, not work.
That’s the secret to consistency and long-term fitness.
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“But what I found is that if you want to live a long, healthy life, if you want to make fitness to be this thing that’s important, then you have to find the thing that you fall in love with.”
– Anthony Vicino
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Episode Transcript:
Alright, so here is my number one health hack. If you want to be in your peak physical conditions, if you want to live a long, healthy, energetic life along into your eighty s, ninety s and beyond, if you want to have the body of your dream, if you want to wake up in the morning feeling great in your body, here is everything you need to know about fitness and exercise. And I’ve been thinking about this because my path has been very interesting in that the majority of my life I was in some way a very competitive athlete. At some points even a professional, whether that was running in high school and college, or snowboarding or rock climbing. I’ve always had an activity that I was obsessed with. And as a result of being obsessed with that athletic endeavor, my fitness, my health followed along suit and I never had to work up discipline to get into the gym for a rock climbing session. Sometimes it was harder than others, like if I was going really hard into a workout, but it was something I fundamentally loved doing, I enjoyed it, whereas I find it harder to get into the gym these days because I don’t have that activity that still sparks me with that same level of obsession. I do Jiu jitsu and I play tennis.
I don’t really climb anymore and I lift weights. Those are the three things. Tennis, jiu jitsu, and lifting. And lifting is the thing that I have the hardest time self motivating to go do. But when it comes time to go play tennis or jiu jitsu, I’m psyched. I’m like, hell yeah, let’s go do that. Lifting just isn’t the thing that sparks me with joy. But what I found is that if you want to live a long, healthy life, if you want to make fitness to be this thing that’s important, then you have to find the thing that you fall in love with.
There has to be something. I don’t think you can rely simply on discipline to be fit, like in top, like 1% fitness. I just don’t think it’s possible, because if you don’t love what you do to some degree, you’re just not going to stick with it. And so the trick, I think, if you’re not where you want to be from a health perspective, just look really hard at finding an activity that you can commit to that gets you in shape by consequence of doing it. And that doesn’t really feel like work when you’re doing it feels like play. And if I could wish anything for anybody out there, it’s just to fill your life with more play. I think play is a good thing. I think it’s something that’s missing in so many of our lives.
But if you can do that, then you can sustain the energy levels, the consistency necessary to reap the benefits of fitness long into your later years. But even now, you just feel so much better when you’re playing games. I’m not saying you have to go join a team and play soccer. You could go swimming, you could play volleyball by yourself. Maybe you like racquetball. Just hitting a ball against a wall by yourself. There’s all sorts of ways, but you got to find what it is for you and it might change over time. For example, for a long time it was running for me, and then I fell out of love with running and I found rock climbing, and that was it for a long time.
And now that’s not it anymore. So it’s going to continue evolving. But I think if you can find that activity that feels like play, you’re going to have such an easier time prioritizing it and actually making yourself go do the thing. At the end of the day, that’s the most important when it comes to fitness, just consistency and longevity. Stay doing the thing for as long as you can, so don’t prioritize intensity. If you can only get in two days a week to do the thing, it’s better to do that and maintain the consistency for a year rather than spend ten days in a row in the gym and then never go back in for the rest of the year. Right? We know this intuitively, and yet we all kind of fall into this trap around New Year’s time, which is why I want to talk about it now, because I want you falling into that trap. If you can’t do it forever, don’t do it for a day.
Figure out what that thing is that you could do forever. Go find it. It’s out there. I promise, too. So that’s going to do it for me, guys. Catch you tomorrow. Until then, stay hyper focused, my friend.
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