At the beginning of this year, I began working on a fitness “feat” that I have worked at, on and off (mostly off), for many years.

On a few occasions, I have accomplished the greatest portion of the feat, then I slacked off and stopped working on it and lost the feel.

When looking at this reality over the holidays, I realized that I must put the “no days off” mindset to work.

I will work on this feat every single day, without fail, no matter how I feel, no matter whether I’m tired, no matter freaking what.

Some of my training sessions are 90 minutes long while others are 10 minutes.

Some days I push it hard and the next day I back off.

But I do not lose sight of the habit.

I still do a little something.

One of the keys to keeping myself “on the wagon” is a hand-written journal. After each workout I write about the session, and make note of how many consecutive days I have followed through with action.

A couple decades ago I read that those who keep journals are more successful than those who don’t.

Why is this?

Does keeping a journal make the person successful?

Or do successful people tend to keep journals?

It’s one of those chicken-or-the-egg quandaries.

When it comes to your own training, you may benefit immensely from what I have covered in this email. Anything you begin doing, if it’s truly worthwhile, it’s worth recording.

If you fail to record what you’re doing you might be surprised at how much you forget.

If you did 100 Hindu Squats yesterday, perhaps you’re ready for 150 today.

Then again, maybe you only do 25 today and that’s it. Either way, it goes in the journal. Either way, you’ve kept your habit going.

When you take two days off in a row, you’ve started a habit in the wrong direction. If you don’t take a single day off, you’ve bought yourself more time with the good habit.

As for flexibility training, as shown in my Combat Stretching DVDs, you can work on dynamic stretches one day and static stretches the next. Or you can do all of them in one session.

But when you have a specific goal in mind, doing a little something everyday will move you where you want to go.

Remember that … and you will definitely…

Kick ass and take names,

Matt Furey

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