This article is targeted towards women who have given themselves to their partners, families, careers, but have left the most important person out of your giving; YOU!
So, you really want to get back into exercise or to start exercising for the first time and you are scared about what might happen when you start. In my experience, having someone you can trust to support you and having a group of like-minded people to share your experience with will make getting back into healthy living and exercise more enjoyable and something you will grow to WANT to do, rather than HAVING to do.
So, here are my most important things to consider when taking up a 10 week kickstart program:
1. The coaches doing the program should be experienced and educated on how to take someone who has been somewhat inactive or not exercised regularly and help them grow into a proficient trainer over a 10 week period. This is really important. It is easy for any trainer or health professional to make you tired, sore and puffed. Getting the balance right especially in the first few weeks of training will let you keep coming back every day and enjoying it without the overwhelming soreness that many people experience in the first few weeks of a new exercise program.
2. Nutrition is the KEY to body transformation. Hard work in the gym WILL pay off, but if you are looking for a physical change then nutrition will help drive body composition change! So… First of all it is about surveilling what you are doing right now, and working out what are the specific parts of your nutrition intake that can be changed. We use www.myfitnesspal.com to track nutrition as we have found it one of the easiest to use and it helps us keep track of your food diary with immediate feedback. Then it is finding a way for you to achieve a balanced diet throughout your 10 week program to help you reduce what you do not NEED and focus on inputting calories that are with a specific target of supplying energy that is required to do the work that you are going to do.
3. Mindset. This is about three main things: Goal Setting, Self Belief and Honesty. Setting specific weekly targets that all link into a longer term goal will help give you something to strive for each week. Self-belief – working on your thoughts and how they impact your behaviour is really important in the first few weeks of a change of health behaviour and Honesty, especially with the barriers you face to success and then how you will set a plan to work around these.
4. What comes next? So, after the 10 weeks what is going to happen? You have to have a plan to succeed your first plan! Make sure you are thinking about this either throughout the first 10 weeks or right at the start and use that first 10 weeks to achieve part of your overall goal.
Going back to exercise or starting for the first time is scary, we know that. We are organising a 10 week Fit Lean Program for Women starting in July. If you want to be healthier, feel fitter and lose some unwanted body fat then this 10 week program will help you get started!
To register your interest for this program please click HERE