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Achieving your goals doesn’t happen just because you just dream about it, talk about it, or even write it down.
It comes from the day to day decisions and keeping to what you said you were going to do, long enough to get to your end point where you actually achieve what you wanted to do.
Everyone who becomes successful with their health or just about anything never actually “own” it, it can never somehow stay that good forever without working on it. It needs to be something you to develop every day so you become better at it.
Once you realise that it’s really YOU who can really change your health, your fitness, your wellbeing, your moods, your energy levels, the way you look and feel, then you will feel liberated because you will realise that it really IS in your own hands after all.
The choices you can make vary wildly, many with wildly different outcomes.
1. If you want to become really unhealthy, start going for a takeaway each night and start buying wine/beer for the house and get stuck into it every night. Then stop exercising immediately and your mission to become really unhealthy will become a reality far sooner than you think.
Your moods will increase drastically, you will develop a negative state of mind and your standards in everything are likely to drop.
2. If you want to feel amazing and finally be healthy and fit, then try the following.
Try getting to bed earlier, start drinking more water, start exercising, drink alcohol in moderation, start eating more nutritious foods, and start setting targets for yourself along the way. Measure your progress and once you hit your initial goals, set yourself higher and higher standards.
Not everyone is prepared to put the work in to get to a high level they can be proud of. Focusing on getting better is the key, rely on your own efforts and forget about outside forces, because if you put your head down and really go for it, you can achieve anything you want.
Most of you are really finding it really difficult to make training happen for you this week in any meaningful way, and are just trying to get through your sessions in any way you can.
I see this happening most years of course, and a different strategy will always work far better for you.
So when it comes to your workouts, you need to simplify what you do more.
Time will obviously be the biggest constraint this week, so making the time you DO have count is ultra-important.
Time-crunching your workouts will mean cutting your overall number of exercises and sets, but raising the intensity of everything you do.
If you normally for example do 3 sets of 8 on each weight training exercise, then you need to drop that down to 2 sets of 12 giving everything in those two sets.
If you normally hit 10-20 prowlers at the end of your workout, then try just ONE to the three bollards. Much more time efficient but still get a huge amount from your sessions.
The new bikes are great for this, instead of doing 30 minutes on the other bikes, just 2-4 minutes can be unbelievable on these new bikes, and definitely get the job done.
You can use the same strategies on the rowers and ski machine, just work harder and for less overall time.
So when you hit the gym, aim to do what you can in 20-30 minutes, going as non-stop as possible, starting again when you get your breath back.
This way of training will definitely get the job done, plus saving you plenty of time to do other things at this very busy time of year!
Mindset can always be difficult at this time of year, but it says a lot that many of you are still setting personal bests even though there are only a few short days to Christmas.
This mindset becomes the difference between hitting Christmas with momentum, or just limping over the line gasping for air.
“Feeling good” now becomes the main factor as well as looking your best.
You know you’re going to feel good if you don’t throw all your good eating efforts down the pan.
Mince pies, “party food”, drinking every night never made anyone actually feel better, maybe for 10 minutes at most.
Not being active, not training, not moving around always makes you feel sluggish, tired and quite often miserable, as you all know.
The best way to create energy in your lift would be to keep as active as possible, keep eating “energy giving” foods and all of these will help you stay massively positive into the holiday season.
Feeling better and being positive are two of the most underrated benefits of exercise and eating right. With all the dark nights, cold and wet weather at their peak right now, your determination to live a healthy lifestyle and perform well, will have a massive effect on your moods and energy levels so keep at it and even light exercise will be a big plus for you if done regularly.