Julianne Hough’s jewels of fitness wisdom

September 12, 2016 Ashley 0 Comments

You may feel really open-minded and willing to try new things.

Especially when you utter these words about yourself:

“I’ll try anything once.”

But, when it comes to exercise or finding an exercise regimen we love, that doesn’t exactly work, does it? We don’t just go to the gym once and stay fit forever and live thinly ever after, do we? (I’d take the ugly stepsisters in a heartbeat if I had a fairy godmother who offered that.) We don’t go to a barre class one day and look like a ballerina for all eternity, do we? No… Before we can fall in love with any activity, we have to actually do it. Consistently. We have to do it more than just “trying” and more than just “once” before we even decide that we like it enough to stay the course. Which is why a quote I heard recently from Julianne Hough (about trying out new activities) truly stuck with me:

“I’ll try anything TWICE.”

This is an excellent mindset to acquire. Because many of us will try anything to nix it from the bucket list, have some fun with it, but ultimately deem it too difficult or challenging for us to stick with. We say it’s “not for us”. And why isn’t it for us? Because we said so. And why’d we say so? Because we’re not immediately good at it when we try it on for size. We might fatigue easily. We might not have the endurance that we want. We may have trouble executing certain moves. What we forget, though, is that even those who are in the top of their game at that same activity – in anything from ballet to MMA – started out exactly where we are… at some point in their lives.

And how’d they get better at what they were doing? Well it wasn’t because they stopped after that first try when they fell short of being immediate professionals. (Or just fell on their faces – like me trying my first spinning back kick.) It’s because they went a second time. And a third. And a one hundred and third. I remember writing an article not long ago on the value of both trying new things (for the sake of staying in an open minded state – which is great for stuff like creative writing or improving problem solving skills), but also picking a special few to get super proficient in. I stand by this. And I love that Hough – a fellow aerobic addict (and celebrity who more people will probably listen too than me ’cause she’s famous ‘n stuff) validates this with her amazing mantra about how to attack new activities. Because, just because you’re enjoying a buffet of buffness imparting hobbies, that doesn’t mean you can’t go for extra helpings on specific sweat inducing dishes.

Hough, for example doesn’t just do spin class and call it a day…

She also leads dance classes and bounces out those calories and bad vibes alike at the trampoline park.

And why should you stick with something new, too? I mean, you’re not some indulgent celeb. You’re told that if it’s not fun, you shouldn’t do it – right? ’cause to quote the classics a la Madame Sweet Brown, “Ain’t nobodygattimefuddat”, am I right? Yes, I agree to a degree. If you hate everything about what you’re doing, then yeah – that’s not for you. But if (after getting honest with yourself), the only thing that vexed you about it was the effort, that’s hardly a reason to refuse it a spot on your cardio option list.

Just because something is hard, doesn’t mean that it won’t become fun for you. Not every exercise is love at first perspiration. Rather, it’s after a week or three, when you start to improve, that you’ll want to come back for more. And that’s when the magic happens. Getting addicted to a certain activity is like flipping on a fat blasting, rapid weight loss auto pilot setting. (Take it from a dojo junkie.) But you have to give yourself time for that to happen. And then, when you realize what you’re capable of once you invest a little sweat, you’ll get a little confidence (and inspiration) and start looking for other things in which you can grow as well.

Because now you know you can grow emotionally (and shrink physically) if you just tough it out Hough style.

#celebrity weight loss#julianne hough#unconventional exercise

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