Success isn’t always about greatness. It’s about consistency. Consistent hard work gains success. Greatness will come. Reflecting on the past two years of coaching people online and in person, I created a list of the advice that my clients have found most helpful in the pursuit of their goals, but that seems to be underrated in an online fitness space rife with detox teas and abs-blasting workouts.
This article breaks down these tips into the following categories:
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Successful weight loss takes programming, not willpower. Around this time last year, I released an article on how to manage your diet over the holidays, with options if you count calories and if you who don’t, so you can click on the link if you are looking for some tips on budgeting your calories or food portions.
Today, I want to delve into some mindset tips that will help you enjoy this time with less guilt and without having to give up on either your fitness goals or the holiday mood. So I’m going to cover:
Without further ado… Understanding motivation is one of the most important things we can do in our lives, because it has such a bearing on why we do the things we do and whether we enjoy them or not. I have recently posted a poll on my Instagram stories, asking my followers if they were staying on top of exercise.
“No” was the most popular answer. In another poll, I asked “Why?” and offered two options: “No guidance” and “Low motivation”. “Low motivation” received an overwhelming 100% response. What many of us might not realise is that your initial motivation is fuelled by a sense of novelty and inspiration to achieve success. Unfortunately, neither of the two lasts long. Your shiny new training program becomes old news in a couple of weeks. And your long-term goal of losing 50lbs can seem too far away when you step on the scale and you’ve only lost half a pound this week. Once your starting levels of motivation are running low, don’t wait to wake up one day and find them miraculously restored. Spoiler alert: It won’t happen. Instead, become the architect of your own motivation. One way to do this is to accomplish a workout when it’s the very last thing you want to do. This will boost your confidence and thus perpetuate a positive feedback loop of success, followed by a sense of accomplishment and renewed motivation, followed by repeated success. In this article, I will cover my top tips to do exactly that. It is not enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well. Following a maintenance phase, in the last month I have resumed high-volume training and a calorie surplus to induce hypertrophy and gain more muscle.
I feel like I am in a better mental place to welcome this process than ever before, as I find myself better equipped, from a psychological standpoint, to deal with the inevitable fat gain and the increasing number on the scale. Sharing my thoughts on the topic on Instagram, I received some great comments about the relatability of the fear of weight gain. So, in this article, I aim to provide some strategies that have helped me and might aid others in the mental struggle against the scale and the mirror. When you look at people who are successful, you will find that they aren’t the people who are motivated, but have consistency in their motivation. Working in a commercial gym, I have the opportunity to talk about fitness with individuals from all walks of life. When I ask how their training is going, the number one obstacle they bring up is the big bad M-word: motivation.
In fact, many of them hire a personal trainer just to have someone to push them to exercise and eat in a different way. But what is motivation? And how can you manipulate it to succeed in your fitness journey? In this article, I will examine different types of motivation and how to harness the most common one to achieve your fitness goals. |
Nikias TomasielloAn online fitness coach who likes bodybuilding, superheroes, and bread. Want to work with me? Check out my services!Archives
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