Programme card

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This is my programme card which was given to me a few weeks ago…I have just reached week 2 of the cycle and I am already noticing small changes and results! Along with my normal gym workout, classes and new challenges I have set myself, My strength (more upper body) has almost doubled! now lifting twice the weights I started with and body weight exercises becoming a lot easier. Very excited to see further developments 😀

3 tips on how to get motivated

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With everyone, there comes a time where we start to see our gym sessions as a chore, we then skip workouts, progress slows and we feel pretty depressed about it all and go back to a few bad habits, we then feel really guilty and instead of getting back on the horse we sit and wonder why we stopped regretfully. – I for one am definitely that person, things come up an I am distracted from it all, and all the well earned progress stops. 

So how do we get motivated? 

One goal – It’s probably the most common mistake that people make: they try to take on too much, try to accomplish too many goals at once. You cannot maintain energy and focus (the two most important things in accomplishing a goal) if you are trying to do two or more goals at once.

Find inspiration – I personally find pictures of my ideal body and this helps me a lot, for some though this can be quite depressing or not very motivational. so find which works for you, there are many ways such as: quotes, pictures, success stories, blogs, and articles to help you stay focused.

Post your goal – writing your goal up in places where you will see it often can have a massive impact on your motivation by reminding you why you started etc. create lots of small cards with the goal on it and put them around the house, so when your feeling a little de-motivated you can see why you wanted to change.

 

Diet saboteurs

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dgOne of many peoples set backs with diets, are the people who they hang around or live with, which can be very frustrating because it seems once you’ve made the healthy decision to change they encourage you to ruin your diet. But why do they do it?

One of the main excuses I hear from friends or family is: ‘you’ll waste away if you don’t stop’ or even ‘your too skinny’ as frustrating as it is I ignore it, but at time it can be upsetting as me and many others feel like they are not supported. however if they actually asked about my goals and why I have set them, they would realise that it would improve my health and performance massively.

Main excuses used by these saboteurs:

  1. Acting insulted. (I’ve have herd this many times before) things such as  “so you don’t like how I cook?”
  2. Making up special holiday rules. “It’s your birthday, one piece of cake won’t hurt!”
  3. Imparting discouraging news. “I am so proud of you for trying this, even though you know that 95% of people fail to keep the weight off.
  4. Making you an outsider. “You can’t eat Mexican because of your diet, so we will see you after we go out.”
  5. Leaving food around. The big candy dish on the receptionist’s desk in an office of dieters.
  6. And lastly the one I hate the most: food waste. I now only eat until I’m full, however most of the time that means there’s is some left over, so they will give you the guilt trip about how you’re wasting food and how much effort they put in it to make it.

– Don’t let people ruin what you’ve got, you started for a reason.