A Few Important Things To Consider, To IMPROVE Your Training Regime
This weeks blog is a bit of a mix
It may appeal to you whether you are:
NOT currently training
Currently engaged in a fitness regime (whether it be with us or not)
I’ll start off by saying this…
If you aren’t currently training and you want to get into it, then here is something to consider
Try being content with setting yourself initially, an upper limit on your attendance
What does this mean?
Well… I say this from a habit point of view. You may need to put in place a self imposed parameter whereby you say to yourself e.g. “I will train no more than once a week for a maximum of say 45-60 minutes”
So will a 45-60 minute session per week get you a result?
Probably not
The thing is, you actually need to be less focused on the result and more focused on creating the habit
Why?
I think many of us put tremendous amounts of pressure on ourselves by imposing unrealistic targets to train 5 plus days a week for at least an hour a day
Which would be rreat! (In some respects)
However, it tends to set us up for failure
You miss a couple of sessions in a row, then all of sudden you feel like you’ve failed
And those feelings can snowball into a behaviour which often gets in the way of our attendance
Then from there, it’s easy to have the wheels totally fall off the wagon, thus almost going back to square one
Or in other words...
You’re just not hitting that 5 day a week target, so you give up
What many of us should think about is habit before result
And for a habit to form, we must allow repetition to happen
Repetition of course takes consistency
I’m not saying you can’t train 5 x days a week
The thing is, you’re being a bit nicer to yourself and being a bit more realistic with creating an upper limit which is initially,
Quite achievable
But you have to decide for yourself as to what you think is a realistic upper limit
When you get used to your upper limit, then you can start adding from there
The hope is your 1 session a week (or whatever initial limit you choose) becomes easy and almost automatic
Thus, you can start adding more sessions from there
From a habit point of view, this is layering
So remember what I said at the start of this email, in terms of who this may appeal to?
Well, it’s not only for those of you currently NOT training
It could be one of you struggling a little to stick to a regime
Consider going a bit easier on yourself
It’s better to show up maybe once or twice a week, even for a shorter session
And building slowly from there
In short, consider starting smaller
Cos I guarantee that singular or shortened session/s per week
Is a MILLION times more beneficial, than not showing all up at all
Keep moving team!
P.T. Scott