Encore: How to Succeed in Building Consistency

Published: Feb. 12, 2023, 2 p.m.

"The longer you are consistent, the more it becomes who you are. I don't work out because I'm motivated. I do it because it's ingrained in me. It doesn't have to look pretty. You can be in your PJs, no shoes or socks, half-asleep, but you feel so much better once it's done.\u201d

When it comes to daily habits like brushing our teeth, most of us don't really think about it. We don\u2019t ask ourselves,\xa0\u201cAm I going to brush my teeth today? I don't know, I'll decide later.\u201d\xa0We just automatically do it. But the same mentality doesn\u2019t always translate to our fitness. Why can finding consistency be so challenging?\xa0

Street Parking founder Miranda Alcaraz recently reached out to SP members who have logged 1,000 workouts or more \u2014 those who have found success in building consistency for years \u2014 to ask them what advice they would offer to newer Street Parking members. \u201cNewer\u201d members could describe somebody who has just joined Street Parking, somebody who hasn't quite found consistency yet, somebody who fell off and just came back, or anyone who is somewhere along their fitness path and is still working to find consistency.\xa0

These SP members are people with varied backgrounds who have taken the tools from Street Parking and made them work for them. Their responses were as varied as their experiences, but a few themes and pieces of advice emerged.\xa0