If I could have a pound for every time I’ve heard this as an excuse, I wouldn’t be sitting here writing this blog. I’d be sipping a fresh-fruit smoothie from my mansion in LA (with a gym in the basement, of course!!)
No seriously, ask yourself this; on your list of priorities, where does exercise fall? Is it even on your list? Some of you don’t exercise because you think you don’t have time. You’re waiting for your schedules to ease up, for the weather to cool off or heat up, for school to end or start, or some other future event. The truth is there’s never a right time to get moving. It’s now or never, so read on to find out how to make exercise a reality. Read the rest of this entry »
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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.
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.
Having settled on some New Year’s Resolutions we can often find that staying motivated is the biggest hurdle. Here are some tips to keep your motivation levels high during a cold January.
How much pressure should we put on ourselves to achieve our goals?
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.
When I started personal training I expected that a large part of my job would be to educate people on health and fitness. My training left me well-prepared for this with masses of information on how much exercise you should do, what type, what you should eat and so on. However, without exception, everyone who has come to see me for personal training has already known this information. The internet, television and magazine has provided us with endless information on how to be fit and healthy but for a lot of us, knowing all this isn’t enough to make us change.
I thought I’d try a different approach to my Sunday run this weekend. I like to do a long run each week and have a few different routes mapped out, but this time I decided to just leave the house and run. The plan was to just keep running, in which ever direction I fancied, until I decided I didn’t want to run any more.
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.
