The true test of any fitness program is its ability to work through diversity. Your physical fitness regime and program should be fluid. It should be able to adapt when life happens. When something interrupts your routine, your program and overall fitness should only suffer a momentary setback which allows you to re-calibrate and start again. Most fitness programs are good only if they are conducted to the "T" and nothing interrupts them. They have to be done as a routine without complication and interruptions. The reality is, interruptions will occur. Life will occur. Programs are doomed when we go into them thinking that the world has to bend to the program instead of the program bending to our individual lives. For example, the world has recently gone through some significant changes and many people have decided to allow the events of the world to dictate the effectiveness and results of their programs i.e. gaining excess weight, increased stress etc. Your fitness program should be fluid enough to adapt to the situation and allow you to work through any diversity.If you think your program is good, did you suffer a set back during recent world events? If you did, no matter what your excuse, its not a matter of whether the degree of the issue was debilitating, it was the efficiency of your program through diversity. Don’t confine yourself to a certain place, technique, habit and/or routine. Routine in many instances becomes the enemy when it comes to true fitness.
Life does happen and unfortunately routine becomes a double edged sword. Routine is what helps develop consistency and keeps you accountable. However, it becomes subject to complacency. A routine program can breed complacency and comfort-ability. Both are ingredients towards failure. Sometimes the best routine is having no routine. To be fluid. To be able to apply your fitness program when there is time, not when it is ideal, but when you can complete it i.e. you have to workout in the mornings, late night, and afternoon. There are ideals but then there are necessities. Moving and conducting activity is a necessity. Which time you do it, is not. For instance, in a new life obstacle keeps you from working out at your usual morning time. Adapt and workout out at night. Routine is not the enemy in and of itself, the program itself must innately be fluid.
Diversity is going to occur in life. Why commit to a program that is dead set on only working at a certain time, place, with certain gear, certain people etc? We automatically set ourselves up for failure when we commit to a routine and program that is not fluid. The solution is to find fitness program that you can commit to that keeps you moving through any life challenge. Keeps you accountable and keeps you from stagnation. To ultimately find a fitness program that works through any diversity.
