It’s monday, and you know how its vital to hit the start of the week running, and please give it your best to really give yourself fresh momentum!!
Or if you are going away, what’s your attitude to doing workouts on holiday? Especially relevant this time of year and can make the difference to your progress and especially your mindset.
You are probably one of two types of people.
You cant wait to get away and not do any training.
Or
You take your trainers with you on every holiday and without fail, you always slip a couple of workouts in.
The mindset to take your trainers away with you is very powerful for your forward momentum, and demonstrates how important being in shape is for you.
On the other hand, if its your only holiday and you have been flat out training all year long, its good to have a break from your training and indeed, you are likely to come back fresher and enthused about the challenges ahead of you for the rest of the year.
So you have to balance which one works for you, and time your breaks to suit your schedule.
If you attitude is the first one, you’re glad to get away from your training because you’re really not into it anyway, then you will be likely to heavily over-indulge every day on holiday. Have you noticed when you come back, you promise to start back training but it somehow gets “put off” for the slightest of excuses!
This is when your mindset gets damaged and even when you do get your first workouts in, your eating is going to be all over the place and you really struggle to get back into proper eating again. In fact, the sugary and fatty foods you consume on holiday never really go away and getting back to eating to complement great health and fitness never really gets going.
The best attitude to have (in my opinion) is to enjoy your holiday, be laid back but try and do some activity, whatever it may be. You will NEVER keep your normal schedule up and who would expect you to do that that anyway?!!!!!
Doing something will work for you big time and give you a slight incentive to eat fresher foods and not the rubbish that’s going to make you feel lousy anyway. Of course you’re going to feel amazing if you eat as you do at home but you’re on holiday, so enjoy yourself.
What im saying is its all about balance, and you don’t need to trash yourself just because you’re on holiday, it should be fun but nothing wrong with putting some good food in there too, along with something active every couple of days.
This keeps you in shape and gives you momentum to start early when you return from holidays.
Don’t let 7-14 days of holidays turn into 6-8 weeks of lousy progress, we’ve all been there so lets make it happen this year!!
