Stop Expecting Willpower to Do The Heavy Lifting

Pennie Varvarides
10 min readAug 19, 2022

Learn how to make it easy to stick to your healthy habits and training goals, rather than trying to grin and bear it

Photo by Alora Griffiths on Unsplash

One of the most dangerous myths in fitness is the old adage: “no pain, no gain”. It suggests that to make progress, it needs to always hurt. It suggests that this isn’t supposed to be fun or easy, but a painful persuit one has to endure.

--

--

Pennie Varvarides

Inclusive strength & flexibility coach | nutritionist | run coach. I build strong humans, with the movement-freedom to live the lives they want.