This makes sense. When I'm trying to make a minimum number of workouts a week, the actual condition is "go to the gym at least twice a week." Literally "go to the gym." I'm allowed to go down there, walk in the door, check in, and then change my mind. I haven't taken it quite that far yet, because at that point I will probably change into my exercise clothes, and then I might as well do at least a little exercise: but once or twice I have left after just a few minutes of cardio or one bit of exercise.
Yes, it's a psychological trick, but it's a trick in which I define "success" fairly low, and be glad that I will usually do more than that if I do that much. Not one in which I tell myself "this is what normal people can do easily" or "it worked last time, it should work this time."
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Date: 2012-12-02 09:16 pm (UTC)Yes, it's a psychological trick, but it's a trick in which I define "success" fairly low, and be glad that I will usually do more than that if I do that much. Not one in which I tell myself "this is what normal people can do easily" or "it worked last time, it should work this time."