Although the principles of your training and nutrition may always remain the same, the variety of what you do can vary greatly.
Take your eating for instance, if you made the same shop every single week, with exactly the same foods, and you made exactly the same foods, life would be EXTREMELY boring for you, your family and whoever else you eat with or make food for.
You always need to have the staples in your shopping trolley.
You will always have your lean proteins such as lean meats, fish, good carbs such as wholemeal bread, wholewheat/grain pasta, brown rice, porridge, plenty of fruit, a wide variety of vegetables all supported by plenty of water throughout the day.
I have ideal shopping lists printed on previous posts so give them a look and they will be very helpful for you.
As long as you have a wide variety of each food group, you will not become bored and as long you get enough cooking ideas, and there are thousands of recipes for healthy eating all over the internet.
How about your exercise?
Is going for a run the only thing you do? How about cycling? How about swimming? How about walking? How about weight training? There are countless options for you to choose from, and as long as you tend to put some strength work in there twice a week with a 3 day gap in between, you’re going to firing on all cylinders and likely to get very good results.
From all of these things, you must achieve a balance or your plan eventually fails and you simply say “this isn’t for me after all”!!!
I always like everyone to have enough sleep, enough exercise with at least 1-2 days off training over your week to refresh you, and allow you to make further gains and really feel like approaching your workouts with enthusiasm every time, this is the optimum attitude to have, but you must keep yourself fresh as you always want your performances to improve.
Another good idea is to plan your activities for the week, and if you do this, you’re not likely to skip workouts and you can keep a record of your progress. A training journal is always handy, as you can write down what you have actually done. As we talked about before, you will develop your own “success map” on how to get in great shape, and you will always be able to refer to it whenever you want to get into great shape in the future, or to even help others get into their shape of a lifetime.
Have a great day and lets use the great weather to your advantage!
Hi you lot, well I am back after a great week on a boat. The weather was awesome, and I did something every day, running, cycling and walking miles, which helped my weight to stay the same, pleased with that, HAVENT PUT ANY ON!!!!. Even tho we ate out mostly I made good choices and I think it paid off, every other drink was a soft drink which stopped me getting dehydrated and I felt good in the morning to do my thing. The boat its self was a workout, 3 stories, 60 foot long, so if we were on deck and wanted to pee you have 3 flights of stairs to go down, that was an aerobic workout in its self. Come back with a RENEWED DETERMINATION, 7 weeks be4 I get to meeet my grandson RYAN McKENSIE, was 9st 3Lbs when I held Jasmine for the first time, know I wont be that light but I can lose at least a stone. Thanks Debs I would love to have your number, and I will ask Keri for it. I read a book while I was on my holiday, an awe inspiring book talking about the reasons we eat badly and how it affects our lives, I could relate to a lot of what was said, and really think I have come to understand myself and my eating habits through this lady’s story. She has a traumatic childhood where she didnt know where the next scrap was coming from, she spent a lot of time in the homes with the NUNS, she was always hungry and cant remember a time when she wasnt, therefore, when food was available she just pigged out cos she didnt know when the next meal would be, and because of this throughout her life she was bulimic and anorecsic, suffered with depression and was instutionalised, very sad, but she is a survivor and has written this book which I found gripping, could’nt put it down. Well enough from me, how are you guys doin? Cyril, I am enyoying my bike again, I have cycled miles on tow paths for one town to another, very lonely on my own, the other half was FISHING. Debs keep up the good work girl, your weight is goin the right way DOWN. Have a great weekend, keep moving. Jean x