Fitness training has taken a bit of a back seat for me in the last couple of weeks. Life just got busy, and i attended a couple of courses. My training routine was not possible and therefore progress has been sliding slightly.
I'm usually pretty good at managing this. I enjoy a certain amount of structure and routine to my training - but i'm not a slave to it. Sometimes a bit of extra rest is welcome. Other times i just manage to cram a lot in to whatever time i have.
You really need these quick solutions available to you so that time is never the issue. We can always find between 5 and 20 minutes in our day.
'Life just got busy' - the excuse i used - is no justification. Otherwise i'd never have any clients!
Once you make your training a priority (and it should absolutely be a priority), then you just decide to fit it in to your day.
The best personal training clients i have are those that realise this. They realise that not making changes to their health and fitness will significantly negatively influence their lives. The time invested is well re payed.
They commit to their goals and rearrange their day if necessary to fit their training sessions in.
Personal Training keeps you very accountable to showing up - physically and mentally, and doing the work. Accountability and support is key to fitness success.
However you do it, getting started on improving your fitness is going to be hard work. This does not mean that it can not also be fun and satisfying, but let's not kid ourselves, it will be hard at times.
This applies to getting back into training after even a relatively short lay off. However, you already know there will be effort, and you know how good you will feel in no time at all once you are back on the programme.
This takes us back to what got me started talking about this. As i said, my own routine had been allowed to slide for a little too long. I was far from inactive, but the focussed, intense training needed to progress was missing.
All i had time for yet again was just a few minutes of exercise. At my home in Haywards Heath is where all my best training gets done. So i put up my pull up bar, which also has some rings attached to it.
First set was 15 pull ups and 10 ring dips. Second set was 12 pull ups and 12 dips. That was it! I was done already.
Yes i had to save some energy from the sessions i had already taught and those still to come, but even so, pretty weak effort!
Oh well, it's the starting that counts. Getting back on track and just doing those first few hard sessions. At the same time i realised i was feeling something like so many of my clients feel - the new personal training clients, the bootcamp startups, the people who come along to circuit training or boxercise for the first time.
A good realisation to have!
Onwards and upwards. Is your training adding life to your years??
Be an Everyday Athlete!
Steve Cork
http://www.sussexbootcamps.co.uk/
http://www.everydayathletes.co.uk/
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