Top tips to kickstart your January health regime.
Tip No 1
Set multiple alarms for each of your tasks in the morning.
When we’re trying to break the routine that we are stuck in we need to have different stimulus to push us onto the new habit we are trying to build, one of the most simplest ways of doing this by setting and naming an alarm.
By example, A few years ago I was trying to get in the habit of going to the gym early before my sessions, so I had multiple alarms with slightly different names. I had to be there at 6am if i wanted to be able to train.
They were called things along the lines of “Get up and go to the gym”, “Stop being so lazy and go to the fucking gym”. I then found an alarm called my healthy wake up call which would start speaking as the alarm went off. After a while as soon as a heard the start of the alarm I was on autopilot to go and workout.
Tip no 2
Make as easy as possible one of the errors the people make is making this the steps to achieving their goal too complicated or too hard to achieve.
They also set the timeframe way too far in advance. I’m sure by now you’ve heard of a smart goal. Smart for those who don’t know stands for specific, measurable, achievable, realistic and time bound we could also change the acronym to a goals should be simple, motivational, Actionable Road mapped and Timely. Meaning within a short period of time if your goals are too big or too complicated as an example I’m going to go to the gym every day work out all of my body do all of my cardio and all my stretches that’s probably gonna take you two hours if you’ve got two hours in a day then fantastic but chances are you don’t have two hours spare every single day if you don’t your goal your motivation for achieving your goal is quickly going to dwindle because it’s too much to go from nothing to everything.
Tip No 3
It’s harder to let someone else down than yourself
Hire an accountability coach or align yourself with someone else who has the same goal as yourself, it’s easy to let yourself down. It’s much harder to let someone else down today. Most people will treat their best friend better than they treat themselves and then wonder why they have no motivation Feel like shit and struggle to achieve anything yet if your friend was feeling this way you would do everything in your power to help them.
By hiring a coach or buddying up, your chance of of success go up and your chances of quitting drop radically.
Tip No 4
Chunk it down
Make the changes to your routine easy to follow like stepping stones across the river. If the goal is to lose 10lbs of fat then your first goal is to lose half a pound of fat, don’t get hung up on how far you have to go focus on the small steps. you want to make this accomplishment as quick as possible so that whilst you’re in the mindframe it keeps your motivation high remember motivational world window will dwindle. If you’re making dietary changes, try swapping out one meal at a time that you feel will make the biggest impact which you mean in fact come from adding a meal
Tip No 5
Check in with yourself on a regular basis and I don’t just mean on the scales in fact wings scales are one of the worst things to check in yourself with as weight will change daily depending on water retention.
By checking in with yourself daily regularly Meaning once a week you can have an overview of your health progress some markers for your health could be new bullet point bullet point.
Sleep quality (do you wake up feeling refreshed)
How long does it take you to wake up?
Daily mood
Overall energy
Mental outlook
Skin complexion
Posture
Urine quality
Colon transit time
Each of these are linked to parts of your health and give you an indicator of whether you are moving in a positive direction or negative direction. I would also recommend on a yearly basis annual blood work if you want a brilliant reference guide then the book ‘Your blood never lies”, is a must have as it helps explain the markers and what they all mean, just remember, the markers are from the US so if you are reading this and you are using UK numbers you’ll need to convert, also you should always seek a medical professional when looking at anything on a medical basis.
Tip No 6
Start Gym Programmes Simply
If you’re going to the start back at gym or start for the first time, begin with a simple program , making training programs too hard, to complicated or to exhaustive is one of the critial mistakes people make when starting a fitness regime. If you start to hard, you’ll either burn out or lose motivation.
This is because it’s hard to improve on something when you are already using everything you have just to keep going. So here’s a bonus tip, get a trainer or someone who knows how to write a programme and get them to walk you through the fundamentals.
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