ADHD and Exercise

What Twenty Minutes Of Pain Can Teach You About Your Life: How I Use Gruelling Workouts As Inspiration For Living With ADHD

by Rob

Just a casual Wednesday with the Krav Maga Defence Institute‘s conditioning crew.

Every week I put my body under extreme duress for a short period of time. I push myself to my limits to the point where I want to crumble into a heap on the floor, and then I push a little further.

And in that moment, what I thought I was capable of is overtaken by what I’m actually capable of.

What Are You Really Capable Of?

When someone tells you that you’re about to do 150 lunges, 300 situps, 60 pushups and 300 skips as fast as you can, you start assessing the situation. Can you do this? How fast can you do this? Will you have to give up at some stage? What’ll it take for you to pull this off?

After a few seconds of deliberation you’ll come to a conclusion. You’ll have a belief about how long it will take you, what you’ll need to do to pull it off and how you’re going to feel afterwards.

And if you’ve been “realistic” with yourself, you’re probably wrong about the answers you’ve given yourself. You’re capable of so much more.

I’ll explain.

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How to Start (And Keep) Exercising, And Do The Impossible

by Rob

(Apologies for the loud voice – this is my first recorded call and I had no idea I was this loud)

When it comes to ADHD, I’m a strong beleiver in overcoming the symptoms by taking care of the basics first. This means addressing Diet, Exercise, Mindset and Self-Awareness before moving towards other solutions.

I believe in this because there’s no point in supplementing with something that you don’t know the long term effects of (medication) when there’s a natural, proven short term solution. The thing is, though, that some of the steps you need to take towards overcoming ADHD symptoms and building an ADHD lifestyle that works for you can feel difficult. Impossible even.

Enter Steve Kamb.

Recently I had a chat with Steve Kamb of Nerd Fitness about why the impossible is possible, and how you can easily start making exercise a part of your ADHD lifestyle. The guy is switched on and knows what he’s talking about..

Steve runs a successful business called Nerd Fitness. In the past three years, he’s grown his supportive community (affectionately known as The Rebellion) to over 10,000 email subscribers and a forum with around 100,000 posts at the time of writing.

People listen to Steve – and for good reason.

Steve has a way of making even the most daunting tasks seem possible (like gambling a night away in Monte Carlo on a tight budget, or travelling the world for just $400 on plane fare).

His blog posts and products have helped people around the world to lose weight, build muscle, get fit and genuinely improve their lives. But more than anything else he’s a down to earth and easy to hang out with guy. I know this first hand from the first time we met . Steve was on his Epic Quest, where I twisted his arm to come out and party with strangers.

Steve’s provided a veritable goldmine of advice in this interview, so make sure you take notes.

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The Zen Of A Beatdown: You Don’t Know Sh*t, And That’s OK.

by Rob

What You Learn On The Mat Will Help You In Life - Photo by Mike Nelson

The biggest challenge I find with ADHD?

Slowing my million miles an hour mind down… and dealing with the fact that I’m not perfect.

In my mid-teens, after rediscovering books, I started to take a great pleasure in proving to people that I knew more than they did. I became the know-it-all of everything I possibly could as a way of overcoming my own lack of confidence.

And because whenever I delivered my thoughts and learnings with such gusto it was accepted as fact, I started to develop an ego. A fragile ego that was founded on being right all the time and being “better” than other people.

What does this have to do with beatdowns? Let me explain…

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