Re-evaluate your why? And your hard!
My experience in the last 18 years of fitness and helping others. Including myself. Brought me to write a few things when I started to reevaluate myself.
I want to help others do the same.
Your why..
Why are you trying to improve your quality of life… That maybe your fitness/health/aesthetics.
Is for yourself or others..?
Now if it’s for yourself. . When you
miss a gym session..
don’t stick to your food plan (which ever it maybe, calories, macros etc) tracking..
Remember your why!!
It’s for you! Not me.. not anyone else. Yes for your family etc is a why, as you want to be your best self, living a long heathly life
But the only way someone can be truly happy with their choices.. is for themselves.
Even myself, I get caught up in life. Making myself a priority.
When I decided back at the start of June after a family holiday that I was going to get back to me! I had to make myself a priority. Sometimes it’s easier to escape by focusing on others.
I started working out when I could have done something else, found a reason why I didn’t have time to fit in my workout.
Most the time it was an excuse.
Making yourself a priority is hard!
What’s hard to you. Not being comfortable in your own skin, or that workout you didn’t want to do..didn’t have time to do.
Now the saying there is no such thing as a bad workout.. you just have to show up is relevant more times than it is not!
My hard.. isn’t the run I would push myself to do. It would be the fact I that I didn’t do it!
I had to change my own why and hard in order to be achieving my goals.
I was getting to the point I hated wearing anything but gym clothes. Social events filled me with dread.. nothing looked good.
I couldn’t wear nice clothes. To me! Not anyone else someone could say I looked good but I didn’t feel it.
Workouts felt harder. Day to day energy was low. I was exhausted.
My hard is I’m now exhausted but satisfied on why I’m exhausted because I’m working hard.
Now this isn’t forever. My body will adjust. Over time it won’t be so much effort it becomes habit. I focus on trying to prioritise recover. Food and sleep. Now people that know me know that my schedule is pretty tough for me to make those changes. T are they worth it to me?
Yes!
Be happy with your choices.
If you want that pizza and wine. Late night. Which may mean a missed gym session and low energy. Then you have to be happy with that choice.
If you choose eating out getting a new outfit and getting your hair done. Over spending that time and money on working on yourself then great! That’s your choice.
My point being is I often here from clients they don’t want to let me down. Which in fact they are letting themselves down.
If I have to miss a gym session to be with family and enjoy a meal out. I will guilt free as I know I’ll work twice as hard the next day. You can’t undo it. but you can have the memories with your family and still work towards your goals it just takes longer!
If you want your goals quicker you have to have the discipline.!
You get up an hour extra early before anyones awake. You go workout. You have your high protein breakfast.
Then you go enjoy a day with family and allow for those fun foods to fit in your day guilt free
Or you load up with a healthy meal and have your cake but go for a late night workout after.
Mistakes are made when you are all or nothing.
I may tell a client to just hit calories for the day instead of all targets. Plan extra steps that day or week.
Everything is goal dependant.
Nothing gets easier, you just get better, then maker it hard again.
A lot of the reasons of your why and your hard, is why people set up to fail. I hate to say it.
But if you are only wanting to get in shape because you think you should, or for anyone else it won’t work.
The workout or the nutrition you was set isn’t the problem (most the time if you have a good coach) it’s if you do it for any other reason than yourself. And know it takes times. You may fall before you win. And it’s an on going journey.
Diets work if you stick to them. Diets that are to strict work but then you don’t stick to them. Same as training.
Unfortunately I always say sex sells. If it sounds sexy! Ie 6 week beach bod. Vs what I would say is 6 weeks to get you on track to Laing good habits but still always working on everything. I find weeks 1-4 usually pretty good. 4–8 toughter 8-12 best results.
12 onwards the hardest.
I can not want something for you. I’m the same way I can not do it for you. You have to put in work with tools I give you. I give you keys to the car you drive it!
People fall off track simply because they don’t understand the work ahead.
Most of the time people are unhappy with choices they have made over a long period of time. For me over 3 years my decline happened. Now 13 weeks in is the hardest part to be ‘motivated’ but I have the habits in place to keep me going.
One day off track means an extra day to be on track.
I’m a mum, A nana. A PT and so much more. But until I added myself as a person to that list and my happiness.
What does happiness look like to you?
Jumping for diet, to exercise, to over indulging. All the time. Break that cycle. It takes work. It’s hard! If your why is strong enough make it happen
I will say to potential clients you have to want it enough then out your trust in me long term. Not a week not a month. Work is never done. But the load will get lighter. Habits will form. Balance will happen. There is no time frame. It’s a commitment to yourself.
Some things will have to go on the back burner. Not forever but for now.
If cutting back on drinking lunching and pampering has to happen in order to reach your goals. Then so be it. It’s temporary. But how long can someone go on for hiding behind something.
Even myself a personal trainer I had to stop caring how I looked. When I workout.
If not doing my make up is going to get me to the gym to fit in a workout the. So be it because no amount of make up would hide how I felt about my body.
No one cares about how you look as much as you do. So if your unhappy, only you can change that. Which the correct education and tools. And support!
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