Week 1: Theory, Habit or Routine?

Hello,

We hope you have been able to take a few minutes for yourself over the past few days and that you have taken the opportunity to stretch and get into good habits!

Now that you’ve gotten into the habit of having good habits, you might like to have some theory on the subject of habit.

In this first Theory Article, we will see together the difference between a Routine and a Habit!

What are the differences between a Habit & a Routine?

Because yes, these two terms are confusing and are often confused. We want to lay out our definitions here so you understand why the September Stretching Challenge is about Habit Building and not Routine Building.

Before going into details: It is important to remember that:

• Quick and miracle solutions do not exist!

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• A habit that lasts over time can change your life!

What we want to emphasize here is habit creation over the LONG TERM without MAGIC and FAST effects . But good solid health habits that last over time and that you will keep for the rest of your lives! 

Let’s start by looking at what a habit is:

What is a habit?

HABIT can be defined as a pattern of repetitive activity that brings stability to an unstable world.

In our daily life, we all have many habits that we don’t even realize anymore! For example: drinking coffee right after eating or brushing your teeth before going to bed…

The little things in everyday life are habits!

Our life is full of habits that bring us security and stability. Some habits are positive, some potentially negative, and some are detrimental to our productivity. Smoking can be considered a “potentially negative” habit. But in order not to complicate things, we will henceforth call “good habit” that which positively contributes to what we are aiming for, and “bad habit” that which goes against our objective.

Habits happen automatically, we have strongly internalized them over time, that they are part of us, and we do it without thinking about it.

Little exercise : you can try to analyze your day and write down all the habits you have! Write a + sign next to the ones you think will help you reach your goal. Add a sign – on those that go against your objective. And finally, write an = sign if this habit is neutral.

The first stage of work is awareness.

The second step (this one takes longer to implement) is to choose a habit that you consider negative and replace it with one that leads to a similar result, but this new habit should be more beneficial to you. than the first.

This process is very difficult for our brains to do.

Einstein said:

“If you want different results, don’t do the same thing over and over again.”

Einstein was right; we move forward through our actions, but sometimes we have to change the way we operate if we really want to change!

To incorporate new habits into our day, we can seek to replace habits that we no longer want and that we feel are inadequate.

The process of creating new habits is a difficult process, sometimes we don’t feel like we are moving forward and we feel like we are stagnating. The complexity of generating the habit makes it stronger!

The new good habit does not come suddenly, it comes over time and remains present over time once it is well established!

Now that the term habit is clearer, we are going to offer you our definition of Routine:

What is a routine? 

Routine for us is something short-term ! The results are very good in the short term, but once we stop this routine, the effects cancel out and everything goes back to how it was. 

The routine for us is something easy to establish in our lives, but also very easy to get out of it.

Let’s take the example of a 30-day diet plan; we follow the diet indicated and once these 30 days have passed, we resume our ‘normal’ life and the weight we have lost returns immediately.

This food routine in this case was done without creating strong good habits. It is very simple to get out of this diet and eat as before. 

It is important to create good eating habits to begin with and then with good habits a stable eating routine will result.

What we’re offering you today is to get off to a good start with solid habit creation.   Once these habits are ingrained in us, it will be possible to create a lasting exercise routine. This can only be done in the long term if we have first created good habits!

The major differences between habit and routine:

The Routine: do not allow sprains or modifications to its given pattern. (ex: diet or a traditional Monday-Friday 8-5 work routine).

The Habit : allows for flexibility, because habits are ingrained in you and easy to pick up. 

How to create good healthy habits? 

The best way to give up a habit that does not benefit us is to gradually replace it with another that better matches what we are looking for. It is essential to do this gradually, changing only one pattern at a time, until we adapt to the change.

We offer a sequence of exercises to create a habit that first leads to health and aesthetics is a consequence. We don’t promise magical results in 30 days, we want you to see results within those 30 days and inspire you to continue on your path to a healthier life, day after day.

During these first 30 days, if you notice aesthetic results, they will be mainly postural.

• José – When I was a teenager, I walked looking at my feet, my posture was somewhat stooped. In my senior year of high school I started rowing, a few months later people were telling me I looked taller…it was because my posture was changing, if you go purely into the aesthetic, I had a better posture, because my back and my shoulders were better positioned .

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Now, you can take a small notebook and write down all the habits you have in your day. 

To face our day and form good habits, we have to change! But it is a very difficult thing for us human beings.

Fortunately, we are here to stick together on the Acro Wine group .

We hope you learned some new things today! Hold on for this end of the first week and see you soon on the networks or on the blog!

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