Spring Motivation Is Here. Please Don’t Build Your Life Around It.

I grew up in the French Alps, where spring is NOT subtle.

One week everything is cold and frozen, the next week the whole valley is aggressively alive.

Four seasons, dramatically different, so your body learns the rhythm whether you want it to or not.

Then I lived in Singapore for nearly 20 years, with tropical 30+ degrees year-round and no real seasons to speak of.

And yet every single March/April, something in my body would go “right, it’s spring, time to get serious!”

I would usually find myself signing up for something, building a new training plan, rethinking my whole nutrition, stacking super ambitious commitments on behalf of a body that was actually doing perfectly fine without them.

And now while travelling through Central America, I’m doing it again.

I’ve signed up for a half marathon in Mexico City in June and I have absolutely no business doing that given everything else on my plate right now.

But it’s spring, so apparently my brain thinks I’m invincible.

So if you’re currently 10 days into a new plan and starting to feel it wobble, hi 👋🏻

I know exactly where this is going, because I’ve been there a million times, and so has almost every client I’ve ever worked with.

And here’s the part that always breaks my heart a little: if they can’t stay consistent, they don’t blame the plan, they blame themselves.

Every single time. Without fail.

And it’s never the ones who weren’t trying hard enough.

It’s the ones who were trying the hardest.

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