Losing can often teach you more than winning, or so the saying goes in sports.
The same goes for your health and fitness programme.
How many diets have you crashed and burned on?
How many times have you tried to exercise and thrown the towel in?
How many times have you said “this time i’m going to do it no matter what” and still failed?
If you have been through all of these, and most of us have if we are honest, then they can become very valuable experiences believe it or not!!!
As long as we remember where we went wrong, then perhaps next time we will learn and not do it again?
If someone suggest we join them in a weight loss class, that we know that didnt work last time, and probably never well, isn’t it madness to go through the same useless process again?
The programme we did in the 70’s, 80’s, 90’s may not have worked out too well, because some of us didnt train too smart, and got obsessed with doing cardio all the time maybe for example. We know that doesn’t really work and we need to mix it up with weights/resistance work.
So we have all the knowledge now on how to train effectively, so you would think that most of us would do it right, having failed so many times before? It is madness to go through the same process time and time again and expect a different result!!! But still some peope do it believe it or not.
Would you attempt an exam in school or college and say you only had 40%, then the next time you had 41%, the time after 35%, wouldn’t it be time to change your approach and work in a far more effective manner? Unfortunately a lot of people don’t get this and never get the very most out of their training, when sometimes all the solutions thhat they need to achieve their goals are right in front of them!!!
Learn from your past mistakes, and as long as you do, you will find the right approach and achieve great results faster than you ever thought possible!!!
