Everest

When climbing Everest, you stop at each camp to acclimate to the elevation.

When training for a marathon, you gradually work your way up to 26.2 miles to avoid injury.

When starting a fitness routine, you begin with the minimum number of workouts per week that you’re 100% certain is achievable, and add more workouts as consistency is established.

This means you won’t climb Everest unbroken. You won’t run a marathon tomorrow. And you won’t get life-changing fitness results in a week.

The alternative is that you get sick on Everest and never make it to the top, or get a stress fracture and have to cancel your first marathon.

“you won’t get life-changing fitness results in a week.”

Or you start with five workouts a week, burn out after two and a half weeks, drop down to zero workouts a week, and don’t try again for months.

Starting slow is the fastest way to get results.