How often do you do the same old thing and just not think about it? How habitual are you? How many routines keep you steady and how many keep you mindlessly chugging along? Ever change it up? Make it fresh? Get out of the box?
We do a lot of the same stairs on Wednesday mornings, so we tried something new today and it was a dope little experiment.
It’s called Stadium Math. In this workout each person picked a number between 1 and 37. This was their starting point for the workout. Everyone at that starting section figured out together what the strategy was to do 40 sections. Go right? Go left? Do 40 right there in one section? Zig and Zag right and left until you hit 40? So many options! So many ways to be creative and change it up just a little bit. Sure, maybe it’s a little bit harder to keep track of how many sections you’ve done, but did you pay more attention because it was different? Maybe you really appreciated how comfortable the routine is every other week you show up. Maybe you realized how much you like certain sections, or dislike other sections. Who knows!? But if you allowed yourself to get out of the box, good. New is good. Fresh is good. By doing something familiar but in a new way, it helps create a perspective on that thing that we didn’t have before. What do you notice and learn by having to count your sections differently?
Routines are good. It’s why we keep showing up, every week, every month, every year…no matter what. And it’s also really good, no it’s necessary to get out of the box now and then to stay dialed in and engaged in our workouts and in life.
It’s as simple as running a different route to complete 40 total sections in the stadium. Running a new way to the Monday #destinationdeck workout. Sitting in a different spot for the group photo. Going somewhere different for lunch. Wearing a different hat, or that style of shoes you’re not sure you can pull off. Do it. Make it new.
Friday morning will also have some racing–#PRhills. Show up & throw down. See you all there.
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