Progress and improvements don’t need to stop if you are injured as we have proved this week. Jean has clearly been able to improve herself this week with some attention to eating and not succumbing to the treats that most people have when they are not training.
The incentive to train hard and eat well is there when you are doing both hand in hand. As soon as you stop training, we somehow automatically become drawn to higher sugar content foods as well as foods high in saturated fats. This is an obvious recipe for disaster of course.
Then once we get back to training again, discipline usually kicks in and our food intake all of a sudden becomes sensible again. It seems madness to do this each time because its another version of yo-yo dieting, in other words your weight going up and down all the time, and every time you go through this process, your body becomes more resistant each time, so your body will find it harder and harder to get into shape, exactly what you DO NOT want!!!
This is why its always ideal to keep your weight, body fat and waist measurement within a tight range. It maybe within 7 pounds for your weight, within 2-3 inches for your waist and within 4% for your body fat. Keeping within these ranges will mean you are successful short and long term.
This ensures higher standards are kept up even if it may be bit of pain to keep on measuring yourself.
This is why you should always look to your training on weekly basis, and not accept having terrible weeks here and there, unless you are ill of course, when its always a bad idea to try and train through it, unless it’s a minor cold.
Constant re-evaluation may seem over fussy but in reality it’s the best self-assessment tool you have, and will make sure you are ALWAYS in shape, never go on slippery slopes and you maintain the high standards you have set yourself!!!
