Six Principles of Working Out Applied in Writing

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You might think that working out and writing are two completely different activities. But if you actually look at the core of these two, you will see that they have similarities. Primarily, the way you succeed in one requires the same process and habits as with the other.

In Bill Hayes' book, Sweat: A History of Exercise, he enumerates six principles useful to sustain long-term personal fitness and applies it to his creative work of writing. Here are the six principles:

1. The Principle of Specificity
2. The Overload Principle
3. The Principle of Progression
4. The Principle of Accommodation
5. The Principle of Reversibility
6. The Principle of Rest

Check out the explanation for each principle on The Marginalian.