Stop Overcommitting – The Real Reason You’re Struggling with Consistency

In this first episode, Josh strips back the noise around health and fitness and gets real about why most people struggle to stay consistent.

It’s not about a lack of motivation or willpower—it’s about trying to do too much, too soon.

Josh shares how overcommitting to long workouts and rigid routines often leads to failure and frustration. He also reflects on his own journey, including how perfectionism delayed this very podcast for two years.

You’ll learn:

• Why short, achievable workouts build long-term consistency
• How perfection kills momentum
• The simple mindset shift that changes everything
• Why just starting—messy or not—is the key to progress

If you’ve ever told yourself “I’ll start on Monday,” this one’s for you.

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Transcript

Hey guys, welcome to the podcast today. I wanna welcome you as this is the first inaugural podcast that I've recorded and the reason why I've chosen to record this today is really simple. I wrote a post on Twitter, a couple of days ago now talking about how there's a lot of people who struggle with consistency when it comes to their health and fitness. And one of the biggest reasons why they struggle with consistency is because they overcommit themselves to extensive programs, long workout sessions, difficult meal plans, difficult tasks to follow. And very quickly, it becomes difficult to adhere to. It becomes overwhelming and inevitably they fail, not because there's anything wrong with them or because they lack willp power, will power is like any muscle in the body. You have to train it to build it. But the reason why they fail on this approach is because they're overcommitting to too much too soon. And this is kind of why I'm recording this podcast for you today. For two years, I've said that I'm going to start a podcast. And I couldn't do it. And the reason why I couldn't do it was because I was getting hung up around well, I need to invest in a studio. I need to have somebody edit it for me. I need to have not just one camera, but two cameras, so it looks even more professional because it looks way more professional when you're being recorded with a camera, but you're not actually facing. Or so it seems in the podcasting world today. And these were all very intelligent reasons and justifications as to why I couldn't start my podcast. But when I wrote that tweet a couple of days ago now, I realized that I'm not practicing what I preach. I'm not doing what I'm telling you to do right now, which is to simplify things down and stop over committing. For two years, I've stopped myself from beginning this podcast, okay, because I've let perfect be the enemy of good, okay? And this is where so many people go wrong. You're thinking right now that you have to train for an hour, five days a week. You have to do your diet. You have to count your calories, you have to eat your protein, you have to drink your water, you have to take your fish oil, you have to do XYZ and the rest of it before you can start with your health and fitness routine and the reality of that is it's not true. Okay? One of the most powerful ways that you can begin to build consistency with your exercise in particular. And I do this myself is to set yourself a minimum workout time. And I don't mean a minimum of an hour, five days a week. I'm talking five, ten, 15 minute workouts at a regular ideally daily basis. Okay, which aren't long enough so that it's intimidating, okay? And it's easy enough for you to do. All right? Now these works could be anything. It could be driving to the gym, doing 10 minutes of wait training. It could be walking around the park, maybe having a little jog every other minute or so. It could be simply stretching, okay? It could be stationary bike. It doesn't really matter what the particular modality is at this moment in time, okay? All I'm telling you to do is to commit to maybe five, ten, 15 minute workouts once a day. That's it. Don't get hung up on whether it's weights and cardio and which one's better about opposed to anyway, we'll cover about at a later date I'm sure. But all I want you to do now is commit to a five, ten, 15 minute workout, okay? If you get there and you're enjoying it, by all means carry on, okay? But don't let perfect be the enemy of good, okay? And what's more important than the intensity of these workout sessions is the consistency of these workout sessions. Okay. So my message to you is really simple. Stop overcommitting to long workouts. This is killing your consistency. Focus on setting yourself a minimum, achievable target of 10, 15 minutes a day, maybe even five minutes. Once you focus on developing that habit, the results are going to follow thereafter. Once you've built that habit, okay? Get started, don't procrastinate just like I have done with this podcast today and the results are going to follow guys. Okay? All the best and I'll speak to you soon.