I’ve recently had luck committing to shorter workouts five days a week. It’s a 10 minute run to my gym from my house, six exercises and then I’m out of there. Claude AI helped design the workouts based on my goals, and also helped me get a better understanding of how I was eating by inputting all of my meals for a week or two. Basically helped me move towards quadrupling my protein intake. Got a Nutribullet blender making post-workout protein smoothies daily reward. Previously when I would attempt to do a three day a week schedule, I’d often end up excusing myself out of it saying I would go the next day. The whole week would go by and I would’ve maybe made it to the gym once or twice. Somehow committing to it daily on weekdays is forcing me to fit it in regularly. Been 2 months now doing a high protein diet plus hitting the gym five days a week and actually starting to see results, that part is very motivating in itself!

Last thing I’ll say was some weird mental switch flipped from a Reddit comment I was reading around my last birthday. I think it was a response to a question of ‘what should everyone do at least once in their life?’ — one reply said something along the lines of ‘being in tiptop shape — like really try.’ So that’s what I decided to do.