I Failed The 75 Hard Challenge 3 Weeks In - Here's What I Learned
We do know that your chances of getting through the 75 hard program go down drastically if you mess up and have to re-start. I guess I will get to experience that first hand.
Was I pissed off that I failed? Yes, initially. But after thinking about it I would rather see this as an opportunity to learn from what I did wrong and how I can avoid those mistakes in the future. So in this post I will be going over how I failed, why I think I failed in this way, and what I learned from this experience.
By now I think you are wondering which ones of the 5 rules did I mess up on:
- Diet
- 2 - 45min workouts a day
- 1 Gallon of water per day(I rounded up to 4L)
- Read 10 pages of a non-fiction book
- Take a progress picture
I go over these rules in more detail in this post about the
75 hard program
so feel free to check it out there.
Anyways back to the rule I messed up on. With out making excuses or some other bullshit I ended up going to bed without taking my progress photo. Yes this is by far the easiest rule to follow. I don’t think any of us will argue that. I actually said to myself that if anything this is the one I would screw up on. The reason being was exactly what ended up happening. It was so easy to forget in the moment. Being busy and tired then just not doing it.
I mentioned some tips in another post I made and I didn’t even follow my own advice. What I said was that the progress picture was easy and would not be difficult to forget, so take the photo the same time each day IN THE MORNING to make sure it was taken care of……. Well i was taking them after my shower or before bed. That was the mistake.
Since then I take it as soon as I get up and I have not faltered in the week I have been into round 2(should have been 4 weeks).
It is terrible that I had to get complacent and mess up 3 weeks into my journey. I did have thoughts of “oh well I will just eat a piece of cake and skip the workouts to rest up to restart…….blah….blah..blah. But thinking all that stuff was the reason i need to stay on course so I jumped back in instantly with no exceptions.
I’m not in the mindset of the victim, I am in the mindset of I will get this done. I can’t control past mistakes but I can control what I do to avoid future mistakes. This program is about doing hard things daily and things just got a whole lot harder. I can piss and moan or I can say “bring it on”.
If you are doing the challenge I would like to hear from you in the comments below. Let me know how it is going for you or if you have any advice for me.
“Sweat lots in training, Bleed less in battle”.
