Day 183: On Shocking Your Body
第183天： 关于刺激身体
“Your body needs to be shocked to become resilient,” Eric explained. Follow the same daily routine, and your musculoskeletal system quickly figures out how to adapt and go on autopilot. But surprise it with new challenges — leap over a creek, commando-crawl under a log, sprint till your lungs are bursting — and scores of nerves and ancillary muscles are suddenly electrified into action.
埃里克解释说："你的身体需要受到刺激才能变得有韧性。"
每天坚持同样的训练，你的肌肉骨骼系统很快就会知道如何适应并自动运行。
但是，新的挑战会给它带来惊喜——跃过小溪、在圆木下突击爬行、冲刺到肺都快炸了——大量的神经和辅助肌肉突然被激活了。
—Christopher McDougall
One of the most common reasons why people don’t succeed at introducing a permanent exercise habit in their lives is because their workouts are boring. They do the same things over and over again, and even if they work in the beginning, the body quickly adapts to them and stops responding to them in the same way as in the beginning.
人们之所以不能成功地在生活中养成长期锻炼的习惯，最常见的原因之一就是他们的锻炼过于枯燥乏味。
他们一遍又一遍地做同样的事情，即使一开始有效，身体也会很快适应，不再像一开始那样做出反应。
When the effectiveness drops down and a person gets tired of doing the same things, the outcome is predictable: you no longer want to work out anymore.
当成效下降，一个人厌倦了做同样的事情时，结果可想而知：你不再想锻炼了。
That’s why I’m so strongly against any kind of structured fitness classes at the gym that you attend because you think it’s the only way to exercise.
这就是为什么我强烈反对在健身房参加任何形式的结构化健身课程，因为你会以为这是唯一的锻炼方式。
Seek something enjoyable and exciting that won’t feel like dreadful exercise. If you can’t find it, keep looking until you do. Ultimately, it’s the only way to successfully maintain an exercise habit in your life .
寻找一些令人愉悦和兴奋的事情，不要让自己觉得是可怕的运动。
如果找不到，就继续找，直到找到为止。
归根结底，这是成功地在生活中保持运动习惯的唯一方法。
However, please note that even if you’re doing something exciting, no matter how fantastic it is in the beginning, if you don’t change your routine every now and then, it also might get boring.
然而，请注意，即使你现在正在做一些令人兴奋的事情，无论一开始有多棒，但是如果你不时不时地改变一下，它也可能会变得无聊。
Mixing it up every now and then by focusing on a different aspect of the activity, doing it in a different place, with different intensity or with different people will boost your excitement, shock your body, and ensure that you’ll stick to physical activity for the long haul.
时不时地把注意力集中在运动的不同方面，在不同的地方、以不同的强度或与不同的人一起进行运动，时不时地进行交叉混合运动，这会提高你的兴奋度，刺激你的身体，并确保你长期坚持体育锻炼。
