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"Listen to your body" is useless advice

Published about 1 month ago • 1 min read

"Listen to Your Body" Is Useless Advice. Here's What It Actually Means.

Something shifts in April and I fall for it every single year.

Longer days, lighter clothes, race sign-ups everywhere (Hyrox season is back, I can feel it), your feed filling up with 'day 1' selfies and new training plans.

That collective post-winter hibernation 'I'm starting NOW' energy hits, and before you've properly registered it, your brain has already committed to something your body hasn't been consulted about.

My body often finds out about these plans later, and last week was a textbook case.

We were heading to Panama City and I knew days before we arrived that the hotel had a PROPER gym.

Not a “2 dumbbells and a yoga mat in a converted storage room” gym (I’ve had those too…). No, a real proper one.

I’d checked the photos. My workouts were ready. I was going to do 4 days of serious strength training instead of the bodyweight and cardio workouts I’ve been doing while on the road.

But I arrived totally flat. Bad sleep, too much travel, work piling up. My body was sending every signal short of a formal letter, and my brain was going ok honey, but get over it because there’s a squat rack!

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Unwritten Potential

by Noemie Mooney

⚡ Ex-corporate burnout turned Certified Health Coach. Every week I help 1500+ burned-out humans build sustainable habits using my MAKE SPACE Method™, a 7-step, subtraction-first framework for real, messy life. No toxic wellness. No hustle culture. No BS. ⚡️Let's goooo!

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