3 tips for successful results.
- Discipline. One of the most important factors for success with any kind of fitness training is the discipline to turn up. Most training sessions are really enjoyable and provide a great feeling when completed. When you’re in the swing of training a sense of excitement for the next session is common but sometimes when the day comes the motivation to train can hit a low. A proportion of any training sessions in a week or month will feel like an effort to turn up to. There’s really no amount of motivation that will overcome this feeling. Which is where discipline comes in, a quick look in the dictionary gives this definition “Train oneself to do something in a controlled and habitual way”. The same as you would wake up for work and habitually catch the train in the rain when you don’t feel like it, with fitness and sport training, one has to learn to be disciplined to complete the session regardless of feeling up for it. It can take time for this to become a reliable habit and works best in tandem with having a goal but it becomes much easier with time.
- Goal setting, it’s much easier to be disciplined with an achievable goal in mind. For goal setting to be effective we need to structure both long term goals and short term goals. A Long term goal would for example would be to lose 10kg, lift your body weight on a squat or run a 10k. Long term goals give us a purpose for training and staying on track which is very positive and motivating. Often this isn’t enough to remain committed so we use short term goals to anchor our focus and allow us to be disciplined. A short term goal could be to make 2 training sessions that week and lose 1 kg in body weight. Short term goal setting is where successful results are made. It’s so much easier to see progress and therefore much easier to remain disciplined.
- Organisation. Organisation is really about removing barriers so that it’s much easier to be disciplined. Planning your routine to include good nutrition and training allows for less chance of bad choices or stress around training. One example would be to pack all of your training kit the day before, this way there’s no running around last minute or forgetting shoes that could lead to more stress and rushing to make training. Nutrition would be to plan your healthy eating at the point of doing the weekly shopping, this way you won’t nip in to a shop to get some food on the evening or day, which usually leads to bad choices. Going further organisation is required to see your progress, if you don’t track your weights lifted, distances running or even food that’s been consumed etc you can’t tell if you’re progressing, you effectively end up lost without some quantitative data and not ascribing a purpose to your training and nutrition as a result. This leads to decrease in motivation and less likely good results.
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