How to make exercise a habit that sticks

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📣 ‘Stop changing your workout; if you’re not consistent, you won’t get strong.’

📣 ‘Mix up your exercise, or you’ll get bored and your body will get complacent.’

These two things were said to me by different fitness professionals in the last couple of weeks. I see the logic in both of them but, unfortunately, they’re telling me exactly the opposite thing. So, what to do…?

The old Rosamund would have tried to be consistent with whatever workout I was doing at the time, all the while worrying that it’s probably not working because my body is becoming complacent. Then, having ‘failed’ at consistency because I couldn’t face another day doing the same thing, I’d have mixed it up and tried something else, all the while worrying that I’m not being consistent, so what’s the point really?

Ah, the defeatist mindset, classic downfall of so many good intentions. 

What would the…