How to Guarantee Success By Adopting The Minimum Consistent Dose

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You’ve maybe heard of the Minimum Viable Product? That’s a big entrepreneurship term about shipping your product changes early and often.

Or maybe you have heard of Tim Ferriss’ Minimum Effective Dose. That’s the idea that you want to do the minimum work to trigger the change you’re looking for. If 20 pushups are going to trigger your muscles to adapt, then you don’t need to do 30.

Let me introduce another Minimum Term, The Minimum Consistent Dose.

In business, you build the MVP because too often we overspend on the first version. The MVP lets us learn whether we are on the right track early.

In exercise, you do the MED because too often we overtrain, get injured and then miss weeks or months of training. In that case, rather than get more fit, the training dose made us less fit.