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.

Now take a look at how much time you have available to workout. Pull out your schedule and talk it over with your partner or anyone else involved in your day to day life.  If you cut something out of your day to exercise instead keep it realistic, for instance swapping watching TV for exercise is great as chances are you don’t need to watch TV.  However getting up two hours earlier and therefore only sleeping six hours a night is a bad idea as you need about eight hours a night.  Sure you might be able to get by for a month or two like this but then you’ll crash and burn.  Don’t set yourself up for failure, keep it realistic.