How to stay on track to get fit?
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If you look around there are plenty of people setting goals, buying the best gym memberships, getting the best coaches and setting up regular schedules and plans for working out. But time and time again you see these same people dropping out and getting back to their old non healthy habits. Why do some people succeed while others fail at making a physical change?
Getting fit is actually more of a mental thing than it is about having the right physical start. As I mentioned in an earlier article: The people succeeding transforming themselves physically are pissed off of what they are at the beginning. This is actually a great motivation to get started.
After having the motivation for getting fit you need goals and plans to have something to work out from. You also need the right nutrition and a fair amount of exercise to keep progressing. But this is actually not enough!
Motivation is the keyword – You have to keep feeding your motivation once you are there. If you lose your motivation for progressing you fall off really quickly. You might think of all the mentioned keywords as balloons bringing you up to a higher fitness level. Motivation is the biggest balloon, and if it breaks or you lose it you fall to the ground.
So how do you stop loosing your motivation? The answer is measuring everything you want to change.
I have to make an example out of myself: I started to get unfit one year after becoming a father. I had problems figuring out how to fit a workout into my schedule. All I did was go to work and stay home with my family. I also new I had problems adding workouts in the evening while my wife had to work now and then in evenings. So I decided to stop using the car to and from work and instead use my bicycle. The ride was only for about 15-20 minutes in total (back and forth), anyway. I kept my nutrition almost the same. I got a free membership at Gyminee and wrote down my weekly progress by using a fitness weight. I set my target for a body fat of 10%. The chart speak for itself:
Even though I had problems reaching the 10% body fat in the end I reached for the goal and had motivation on the way. You can do the same with any activity: be it packing on 10 pounds of muscle, loosing fat, getting the best lap time for a sport activity or jump higher. You are in control and decide!
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