Interview: Built to Last By David Armerland
- David Armerland
- 15 hours ago
- 3 min read
I’ve been exercising all my life. At the end of the day I’m going to go and exercise and every single day at the end of the day my brain tells me, “oh yeah you had a hard day, you are stressed, you have a lot of work to do. Why don’t you put it off today? Tomorrow you can train twice as hard.”
so I have to come to understand this version because I felt it all my life. I used to do competitive taekwondo for about 10 years of my life. Every single day I go training and my brain wouldn’t want to do it. But I would force myself to do it. When I stopped competing, I had to deal with that voice and this is a deal that I made. I am going to exercise for 10 minutes. If in 10 minutes I’m still feeling like this I will stop. When we train for 10 minutes, we train for a minute.
This is one of the things David Armerland and I have in common.
I have been exercising for 15 years now and I still have the voice in my head that tells me not to do it and take it easy today when it is about exercising. But I know that if I stop one day, the next day will be easy to give up again. That would make me feel like I am giving up and I am dying instead of giving the best of me and living to the fullest.
David Armerland is the Author of Build to Last.
How To Get Stronger, Healthier, And Happier At Every Stage Of Life. A book for people who want to stage in shape through their whole life.
In his interview he mentions that we are not rational beings but instead we make decisions based on our emotions.
For example, if someone is overweight and he knows exercise will help him lose weight and improve his day, but he is depressed, he won’t go exercise because his emotions are stronger than the rationalization of what is best for him.
For people to start a new good habit, according to David, they need to feel it deeply instead of understanding why they should exercise. For instance, If I told you that exercise will help you avoid diabetes and even reinvent their symptoms or can help you avoid a heart attack, you may not care and won’t exercise.
But if a doctor tells you are going to die in a few months for any of these diseases, it may touch you emotionally and you will take action to improve your life and avoid dying in a few months.
In addition to that David also mentioned who you think you are or what you tell yourself as to do a lot with the changes you are going to make.
If you tell yourself things like, “I am not worth it”, “I have nothing to live for”, “I am a failure”, “I don’t do things right”, “I can’t make the changes”, the chances of you practicing the new habit is going to be difficult.
On the other hand, if you know you can do it, you trust yourself, you love yourself, you put in the effort and you know that is possible, then you start practicing the new habit.
David explains in this interview that exercising gives you a sense of control and people want control. When you have control of your body, you get a sense of control in the external world that helps you with stress and helps you make better decisions.
David gives a lot of insight about why people exercise and how to adhere to an exercise program.
I recommend you watch the whole interview here and get his book Built to Last to learn more...
about what is the best exercise program for you and how you can start transforming your life.
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