The four fitness things you need to do in 2014
Happy New Year everyone!
We fitness professionals call this time of the year “The Great Revival”. It’s because the gyms will be packed with people looking to lose the holiday weight and get ready for summer which is three months away here in the Philippines. But then, July and August come along which gives way to “The Great Depression” as some if not most of the people who enrolled in January (most for a 1 year contract) will be suddenly out of time to go and work out because summer has come and gone and with it, bikini season. This is a pattern that we fitness professionals are trying to break.
I’ve said it countless times before, your body doesn’t care whether it’s summer or the rainy season. If you use it, and use it well, it will be primed and ready. This means less body fat, more lean body mass (muscle) and generally, looking like an active body. But once you stop using it, then it will look like a lump of clay that hasn’t been molded yet.
It’s time to stop this pattern and become an Unstoppable force in 2014. Here are four things that I myself will be adapting to my routines. Care to join me?
1. Stop calling it a workout, start calling it a Training Session: The difference between a workout and a training session is night and day. A workout is a can be said about random exercises pieced together with the goal of raising your heart rate, breaking a sweat and losing some calories. You do your workout and then do it again the next time, and again and again. There’s no progression and you come in basically to break a sweat. That’s better than nothing, but if you want to be unstoppable this year, it’s time to have a training session. Training sessions are part of a training program which has a specific and measurable goal in the end. It has all the components of a workout but with the big difference of having a higher purpose than just losing a couple of pounds. You get BETTER with each training sessions and it all adds up and contributes to your training program.
2. Schedule your Training sessions (and stick to it): Schedule it and treat it as an important board meeting, only you’re meeting with all the individual muscles in your body, telling them what to do, where to go, and watch them go to work. Training Sessions should be treated as if they are important doctor’s appointments or presentations for a new client. They can’t be missed, and you need to be at your best, every single time. This is what a Training Session should be. Calendar your weekly sessions and mark them as important.
3. Do the most challenging thing first, in your day: This will be subjective and may be harder to apply to people on a schedule but putting the hardest thing first in your agenda and finishing it before lunch can be a very powerful thing. Some people might put a workout in here, others might put an errand they’ve been putting off. Whatever it is, figure it out the night before and get it done, first thing in the morning. Actually, scratch that, do it AFTER you do number 4.
4. Meditate: I’m a proud born again Christian, but no matter what faith you believe in, or religion you follow, meditating at least once a day (preferably) in the morning, will be a great way to start the day and focus on the important things in life. Having quiet time has been proven to be beneficial not only to your state of mind, but also to your physical body. I strongly believe that living each day with a purpose gives you to tackle the things that you have to do with more power.
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