Melissa Walker of Heyday Coaching pens a monthly blog with tips for helping you achieve your own peak success, happiness, and vigor.
But no matter how worthy our intentions, it is easy for us to lose sight of them and slip back into old habits. One of the first things I learned in coaching training is that human beings have a deep and often subconscious resistance to change, even to the change that we KNOW we want for ourselves. As psychologist James O. Prochaska writes, “However healthy change may be, it threatens our security, and sometimes even self-defeating security feels better than none.”
It’s astonishing how quickly you can abandon a good habit.
I spent the fall and winter building one small but important habit: lifting free weights for 10-15 minutes, three or four times a week. I want to be a healthy person, and I know that as I age, my risk of developing osteoporosis increases. Plus I don’t want to develop too much floppy flesh under my arms. Some moderate weight training can help prevent (or at least delay) both those developments.
