As fitness professionals we’re used to telling people about the importance of exercise. We spend less time though talking about the importance of sport. Sport can have a massive impact on people’s lives. It can dramatically improve a person’s confidence, happiness and give them a focus.
As personal trainers, it’s our job to show people the most effective way to exercise but it’s also up to us to help people find ways to stay motivated. The key is always in finding something you enjoy and so we often encourage people to try different sports.
January is the perfect time to make some resolutions for the year ahead. Unfortunately, many people find themselves setting the same goals year after year. This is because making those resolutions stick is the hardest part of all.
January is a popular and perfect time to set out the goals for the coming year. As with any goals, fitness goals will be specific to you. What’s going to work for one person won’t necessarily be right for you, so finding the most effective way to achieve your goals can be harder than it sounds.
If you’re anything like me then it will be dawning on you this week that you might need to start thinking about Christmas shopping. And then you’ll realise it’s only the start of December and that you’ve got weeks yet!
I haven’t written a blog post for a while for a couple of reasons, one of which is far more exciting than the other. Let’s start with the exciting one: achieve more is now more than a personal training company. We also have a healthy cafe and will soon be adding a range of treatments including chiropractic, sports rehab and massage.
I’m worried about how attached I’ve become to my iPhone. I reckon that I must pick the thing up about 50 times a day. It’s got my life in it. It wakes me up in the morning and it tells me what appointments I’ve got. I communicate through it using email, phone, text, Twitter. I manage my banking through it and I order my food through it. I’ve also got a tonne of work-related apps: BMI calculator, Bleep Test, even a musculoskeletal manual…
If you want to do better at something, whether it’s sport, fitness or losing weight then you need to work at it. Presumably that’s why we all talk about “training” to achieve our goals. But how often do we take a step back and consider exactly what we need to train, or work on, to get the improvements we want?
It’s easy to believe that getting fit is straight forward: move more, eat well. For some people it is that simple, but for the majority of people there are many more factors that come into play and have an impact on both your health and fitness. The role your mind plays in achieving your goals should never be underestimated, particularly when that starts to impact on your body. An example of this that I see time and time again is stress.
I wonder what you think of when you imagine a personal trainer. In my experience people imagine a one-to-one session where the client is put through their paces by a trainer with the aim of coming out of the session a bit fitter than when they went in.
Have you set yourself a fitness goal recently? How confident are you that you will achieve it? There are many different factors which play a part in whether or not we are successful but the one that has the most impact of all is your own level of confidence that you will achieve that goal.
