When does pizza, takeaways, wine, beer, ready meals become “most” days and workouts go from “most days” to not at all or occasionally?
All of you start with high ambitions, you “really” want to do it this time!
You will likely start off really well, and get some good healthy food in, and your energy levels begin to get better, you started to feel better and your clothes start to feel better.
Most of you keep this momentum up, and start to excel in our programme.
What happens when you start to miss workouts, for whatever reason? It’s at this exact stage when things start to go pear-shaped.
When you miss a workout, you won’t feel that great moment when anything is possible, when you get that immediate lift, when you feel much more positive, when you start to dream bigger, when you wonder where exercise has been all your life!
Miss a few workouts and those wondrous, joyous feelings soon become a distant memory. You start losing the courage and the will to start back.
It is EASIER not to show up, to start NEXT week which is the week that never comes, doing nothing is always much easier than taking action after all.
It’s at this stage that trips to the supermarket, co-op, etc become more regular for the pizza, takeaways, wine, beer and you rationalise it by telling yourself that “everyone else does it” so why don’t i?”.
The difference between being in great shape physically and mentally, and being out of shape, not training and making continuous poor choices destroying your motivation and drive, are often all to do with that decision you made to start skipping the things that made you great in the first place.
Momentum is your friend, keep showing up, keep setting new personal bests and keep that motivating promise you made to yourself when you first started and you were REALLY going to do it this time no matter what!
