Following on from the post on progress I want to share a little tip with you.
When it comes to transforming both your body and lifestyle, make sure to keep in mind “is this something I could continue to do in 6 or 12 months time”
If it’s not something that you can see yourself doing in a couple of month’s time, are you going to undo all your hard work?
There is nothing worse than busting your ass for 8 weeks or 12 weeks and looking great in April and then by the time you go away in June you have gone back to the way you looked in January.
If you are tracking your progress you should notice if you are slipping into old habits, but if the changes you have made are too extreme this may be hard to stop.
What we do at AdePT is show you how to not only change the way you look, but how to keep the body you have worked so hard to get.
Look at it this way, if you have just started training in January and you also gave up the drink (good auld dry January) and banned yourself from eating chocolate how did you do on Feb 1st?
Sick of training?
Were you craving a G&T or a wispa?
Which of the three helped you drop the most weight?
Are you going to be able to keep this up for the majority of the year?
At AdePT we don’t believe in the whole “New Year, New Me”. We believe that you make small changes each day and “keep a few eggs in your basket”.
Why do we do this? We do this so that if your progress stalls you still have something that you can do to continue your progress.
In January we try to change everything, and we go too extreme with our changes. If our progress stalls, which is inevitable at some point (our body will always adapt) we have nothing left we can do but go more extreme.
If we take a less extreme approach and just focus on becoming more active and maybe drinking more water throughout the day; we do this for 2-3 weeks, then once these things become habitual you can start looking at changing something else. We can look at your meals starting with breakfast and spend 2-3 weeks figuring out what works best for your body. Then we can move onto lunch, dinner, snacks and then the weekends (we all know the weekends are the toughest). We can look at sleep patterns, different training protocols or supplementation…etc
