Do you struggle with staying on track doing daily workouts? Do you find that you are super gung-ho then just fall off completely with your workout plans or clean eating meal plan? If so, this is for you!
One issue I commonly see is that women decide one day they they feel fat and want it gone. So they do crazy long workouts, or super hard workouts every single day for a few weeks then completely stop. Or they go on super strict diets and after a few days fall off and binge on junk.
This is not related to motivation.. this is related to the fact that your workout plan or strict meal plan is not realistic.
You are better off doing a few workouts a week or eating 80% on your clean eating meal plan, and doing that for the long haul because your results will actually last. When setting up your workout plan or clean eating meal plan, you need to ask yourself, “can I workout/ eat like this for the next 30 years?” If the answer is yes, keep going. If the answer is no, you need to revise.
Sure, you might not be bench pressing 135# when you are 72 years old, but you can still dedicate an hour a day, four days a week to movement when you are 72.
Your workout plan needs to encompass your day to day reality. If you have kids, a full time job and a clean house, you need to consider those priorities in your life and know you aren’t making 5am spin classes or two hour lifting sessions six days a week. You will be better off planning three sessions at the gym on your lunch break and maybe one morning run, and even that may shift around week to week. You are better off doing 3 – 4 sessions of formal activity a week for years than doing 20 days of 2 hour workouts then crashing and not working out again for 12 weeks.
The same goes for eating. You are better off having eggs and veggies for breakfast, snacks of greek yogurt, lunches of salads and a slice of pizza for dinner than going vegan for 5 days then eating your weight in ice cream all weekend.
At the end of the day, this is not a sprint. In a sprint you go as fast as you can for about a quarter of a mile at most, then crash. If you jogged and walked in intervals you will go a lot farther.
Your Coach,
Kyra
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