Personal Training Gold Coast, Weight Loss, Personal Trainers

Tell your friends, family, work mates and of course Personal Trainer about your exercise program. Tell them they can all act like your Personal Trainer and keep on your back if you skip a workout. If you have someone to answer to, you’re a more likely to get it done. You are too emotionally attached to your goals, so it’s a great to have someone look at the situation and say “why aren’t you going to the Gym today”? 99% of the time you won’t come up with a good answer and thanks to a friend questioning you will hit the Gym.

100 minutes a week is 0.99% of your week so you can find time to make this your number one priority. Have you ever not gone to work because you were too busy or you just couldn’t be bothered? Of course not! You wouldn’t get paid if you didn’t go to work. The same goes for exercise; you won’t get fit and lose weight if you don’t exercise. You can’t afford to not get paid so you show up every day on time. A 38 hour work week accounts for 23% of your week, so if you can find time to show up to work, you can find another 0.99% of your week to achieve your goals and be fit and healthy.

So if you’ve been good you’ve written down your goal and made time for exercise in your busy life since my last blog. Now lock it in as a set appointment. Aside from an emergency, you will be there no matter what. Your friends and family know that this is your sacred time to work on your goals. If it is your number one priority you will make it to 99% of your Personal Training sessions or whatever exercise you choose. If it is your number two or three priority after work and kids you will consistently cancel. So for your 100 minutes a week or whatever number you come up with, you and your goals come first.

The other way to do it is to structure it more and give yourself set days and set times to exercise.  The good thing about this it makes sure you spread your exercise over the week and not leave it till Sunday and then run out of time. The bad thing about it is it doesn’t leave you with much flexibility and in inflexible program can be many peoples down fall.  It’s a personal thing as to which way you use so it’s up to you; the end result is the same: you must commit to a long term and realistic amount of exercise each and every week.

There’s a couple of ways to do it.  My favorite for clients is to base it on 100 minutes a week.  I like to use this as it’s a enough time to get real results, but not an unrealistic time commitment for most people, if you believe you can realistically do 200 minutes great, go for it! So your 100 minutes could be one 30 minute Personal Training or Kickboxing session and whatever else adds up to the remaining 70 minutes a week, as long as you get it in who cares when or where you do it! So the remaining 70 minutes could be seven ten minute runs with the dog before work, or it could be a 70 minute power walk on the beach on the weekend.  If you get 100 minutes done great, if you get more done even better!

We’ve started putting together a series of online fitness tutorials.  Check back often as we will have a lot of great videos online shortly.