Routine I try to Skip When running

I hate stretching.

I’ve always been uber athletic, and skipping stretching was always the thing I would skip the most. Even when I played football.

Has anyone ever seen a lion or tiger stretch before hunting prey? I felt like I was a cheetah, I was always ready.

I would skip stretching before and after.

Morning Routine
I try to skip doing everything in the morning. Getting up from a dead sleep is really tough. It’s always been an issue with me. I wonder if it’s partially because I have such a hard time going to sleep.

Even as a kid, my mother, or grandmother would have to constantly keep coming in to wake me up. Just getting that long awaited rest, but also after a normal day of basketball at morning recess, class, basketball at recess again, class, basketball after school, karate class, and basketball when I got home, it felt good to reset.

Same thing goes for now, I get up, walk the dog, build my breakfast bag, grab all the snacks I need for the work day, brush my teeth, feed the bird, put on my clothes of course.

Then I bring the dog up, feed the dog, get my shoes and hat, head to work and work that day.

Work days lately have been pretty stressful and constantly filled with work. I eat my snack, and lunch and quickly rush back to the lab and work more. Go home.

Get home, eat a snack, lift weights, walk the dog, get ready for my evening run, study some PMP test questions, play some games then get ready for sleep.

I Try My Hardest to Not actually Skip anything
I plan to write about this soon, specifically my adaptation of the 4 laws of Atomic Habits. Skipping a routine can create a new unwanted habit. On rainy days, I still run.

When I know I don’t have to stretch, I stretch. The outcome of not stretching is usually pain, and having a hard time sleeping or even sitting in a chair.

I work out even when I know I’m not 100% percent. I prefer to not break the chain of doing as much as possible in order to maintain good habits.

The thought of running in the rain, is no different than running when it’s dry, that’s only because I’ve ran so much when it was raining.

As humans, we thrive on good or bad habits. It makes it easier to succeed when you require less convincing because your entirely used to just doing.

It’s easy to do everything in my life currently, because I make a routine of it, and it requires so little thought or energy that it feels effortless even when it requires a lot of effort.

Routines exist for a reason, but also can help us achieve when it seems like we are expecting to fail. Don’t skip on the minor routines, they are just as import, if not more, as the building blocks for creating new/good habits. They also help increase the likelihood of success.

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