Indie solopreneurship is unhealthy for me
jasonleow • 20 Jan 2023 •
Indie solopreneurship is unhealthy for me. There I said it.
As much as I love the work, the lifestyle is just waaay too sedantary.
I just realised how unfit I am just working from home, after being absolutely knocked out from running a workshop for my client for half a day. My back starting aching just 1h in, and by the end of the workshop my body was screaming to lie down.
Not good. Not good at all.
I think my unfitness started trending downwards since the pandemic + fatherhood, and I never quite got back. In fact, I’m not even keeping my head above water, I’m just sinking slowly without realising I’m going to drown. Like the proverbial frog in boiling water. It’s so easy to cruise along with my sedantary lifestyle every day, because I don’t feel worse off day to day.
But it’s like 1% daily compounding, except that it’s negative. Hypothetically speaking, if I compound at 1% worse every day, I’ll end up 30x less fit than a year ago. It’s scary when I extrapolate the unfitness now to 10-20 years later when I hit my 50s-60s. By then it wouldn’t be called lack of fitness, it’ll be atrophy. Then quickly it’ll be degeneration.
Not a future life I want. Where I live long years of life but there’s no life in the years.
What can I do then?
I already exercise every morning:
- 15min brisk walk or slow jog
- body weight exercises like push-ups, squats, heel raises
- climbing up 7 floors of stairs
But I think I need to up the ante. Maybe multiply that workout by 2-3x, per day. Go for longer walks every week or two. Carry extra weight while doing that.
Nothing like a mini crisis situation to trigger a positive change.
Comments
Agree. Remote workers in general seem to have this too. At least when we used to commute to office we had to walk more!
Not sure where Mac went. He launched a newsletter and then went quiet…
Hey guys - sorry for going quiet!
GoLifeLog has helped me tremendously in creating a writing habit, and I’m now trying to figure out my systems and where it makes most sense to post going forward, with my newsletter as the main hub.
@jasonleow I totally feel you on this. The GMB course has helped me tremendously, much more than my bodyweight routine I was doing before. But the key for me more than ever has been to just make sure I do it every day, even if it ends up being just 15 minutes.
And I’m doing twice a day relaxation meditations, I call them, but really I just lay on the bed for 10 minutes and scan my body for tense muscles and try to get as relaxed as possible. Has really helped me try to keep my tension a bit more under control. Not sure if that part feels relevant to you but just in case.
@macmartine We’ll chat more on your newsletter then!
It’s not just indie solopreneurship. Those of us still “working for the man” in 100% remote assignments suffer the same fate. Courtesy of @macmartine (is he still around?), I started working on functional movement exercises as part of the GMB Fitness course. https://gmb.io/ Then again, I’m starting from couch potato status.