Don't Do the Treadmill

 

Don't Do the Treadmill [unless it's part of your conditioning program]

This piece is NOT that relevant to the gym buffs, if we mistook this tagging for it. Instead, we'd like to spend a bit of time focusing the pitfalls of a plateau which literally characterizes the pace we have in treadmills. As treadmills generally offer pacings that have plateaued, in life, once our pace has reached a plateau, that is a pitfall, a mousetrap we need to extricate from.

Calling a spade a spade, in life, our pace is what dictates and shapes our end-point, our end result. If ever you drop your guard once you reach a plateau, take it that you are trapped. That is not a soft spot that will push your trajectory upward. Instead, you will end up akin to a lithium battery whose depth of discharge is as shallow as it should ever be, else the battery itself conks out.

Once your pace in life leads you to plateau, you must have the wherewithal to extricate yourself from it, else your dreams, your goals, your visions all get thrown out of the window. Forget about hitting a homerun, that's the last thing to happen but if it does, that will take a miracle to turn things around for you. Are you still confused why we're making a mountain out of this molehill ?

Reference this graphical representation. As long as you're still uphill, regardless of the struggles you are enduring, that by itself does manifest your 'spontaneous progress'' BUT once you reach that plateau up there, that's your 'danger zone'. That will lead you into a false sense of security, a falsehood, a fallacy misleading you that you have reached the pinnacle of success, enough for you to taper off

This is a dilemma many of us have been through [probably over and over again]. How many times in life where we became complacent, so cocksure akin to that pilot when his aircraft reaches the target cruising speed, justifying for him to switch his aircraft into 'auto pilot' mode. But hey dude, our life is not an aircraft, we are not meant to reach the designated altitude that sets the aircraft to its cruising speed. A patsy may not survive life for long. Weaker souls may not survive either. Life is a rat race, it is a roller-coaster ride of ups and downs and likely with more downs, more dives than ups. Such is life.

Take it from Fred DeVito, the famed New Yorker who etched his name in trainings: "If it doesn't challenge you, it doesn't change you'. And what's the magic word here? It is CHANGE. For you to progress, for you to inch forward, there has to be change. Change has to come. Unfortunately, weaklings shy away from challenges but that leads them to get stalled and stagnate, a downer from the journey we always steadfastly plotted in our life.