If You Struggle to Train Consistently, Do It Immediately After Waking Up

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If you struggle to train consistently, then the #1 remedy is to do it immediately after waking up. There are several reasons why.

First, it shields you from those unexpected events that demolish whatever schedule you had planned for the day.

Second, there’s no time to even consider skipping the training session. By the time you shake off the initial grogginess and become fully conscious of what you’re doing, you’ve already started training.

Third, there’s a clear habit trigger and reward: waking up means it’s time to train, and after you train you get your shower, meal, whatever, and you get to feel good about yourself all day. And if you skip the training, then there’s the punishment of feeling bad about yourself all day. It’s basically operant conditioning.

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