The Fail-Proof Plan for Working Out "Again"
The keyword is AGAIN. It seems that you’ve done the “gym” thing before but life got in the way and you’re trying to get the momentum back. Most of the people I train are exactly at this moment in their fitness journey so I know a few things on how to fire up up that motivation again.
The difference from then to now is that time has passed, you’ve gotten older and you probably have more responsibilities consuming your time. When you’re starting to workout again, your approach has to be different this time around.
I will share with you THREE components that are needed to create a fitness plan…again…but this time with sustainability and your success in mind.
1. Know Where You Are, Visualize Where You Want to Go and Turn It into Reality
First you have to find out where you are right now. You need some sort of data that shows where your fitness is at. It could be stepping on a body composition scale and finding out your body fat and muscle mass percentage or trying an old workout and seeing if you’re still fit enough to do it. Regardless, you need something to test your health to show you where you are at currently. Then you have to visualize where you want to go from there.
Remember this. All things are created twice. Once in your head and once in real life. You have to visualize the end point if you want it to become a reality. If you want to look in shape for the summer, can you visualize that? Can you visualize you working out 3-4x/week? Do you have a trainer or are you at a corporate gym by yourself? Can you see what bathing suit you are wearing on whatever beach you are at?
Once you visualize this, you can see all the moving parts that need to happen to reach that goal. Once you have the vision, turn it into reality by creating a plan that will reach that goal. Then everything that you do to reach that goal is never random or last-minute. It will always feel like you are just doing what you had envisioned and being proactive enough to turn it into reality.
2. Focus on Building Habits Outside the Gym
Working out alone does not reach fitness goals. There are so many habits that have to be built outside the gym that create sustainability and avoids the whole “again” part of failed fitness plans. When you begin to invest more time, energy and attention into these habits, not only will your results become sustainable but you may not even have to workout as much.
Here are the habits that create the foundation of sustainable health and fitness:
Start a Supplement Regimen to get out of nutritional debt and accelerate results
Hydrating enough to boost metabolism, aid digestion and expel wastes
Stabilizing a sleep pattern to filter out stress hormones, accelerate healing and build muscle
Using protein powder supplements before and after workouts to protect and build lean muscle
Properly managing stress to avoid fat gain and muscle breakdown
Avoid processed foods and drinks to avoid unnecessary fat gain, sugar spiking and water retention
When you begin to combine working out with these habits outside the gym, you will make better progress and make the most of your workout routine.
3. Prioritize Fitness by Scheduling the Days and Times of Your Workouts
Working out is very important BUT its not urgent. What I mean is that it doesn’t have a strict start time and end time like a work shift. You have to MAKE THE TIME by scheduling it as a priority in your week of things to do.
Also, this task nobody can do for you. Nobody can exercise for you or eat healthy for you. You have to show up and do the hard work. Most people know working out is important but don’t find it important enough against all the million things they have to do. Whenever a task is not written down as a commitment, LIFE will always take that time away from you.
If that time is constantly robbed by your life, ignored and pushed out of the priority list, overtime it will lead to big consequences that are now URGENT and IMPORTANT like having low confidence, fat gain, muscle loss, diabetes, hypertension, metabolic disease and shorter life spans. You can see how prioritizing health and fitness this time around is very important and the biggest reason why you’re starting “again”. You realized your healthy is deteriorating and your body is telling you to do something about it.
Maybe in the past it was much easier to go to the gym because you had more time but I’m sure that this time around the story is different. You have less time and more responsibilities but you can’t let them distract you to whats important which is your health and well-being. That probably is the MOST important thing you have in this lifetime.
Conclusion: Notice everything I talked about had nothing to do with the latest, trendy workout program or special diets. If you are restarting your workout program again, you have to lock down these three foundational habits to make the plan sustainable.
You have to make your goals realistic and measurable. You have to create new habits that promote a healthy lifestyle regardless if you workout once a week or five times a week. You have to create the habit of prioritizing your workout schedule and actually write it down with a day and time you are going to do it.
So if you’re starting a workout program “again”, this is groundwork that will set you up for fitness success this time around.
Thank you for reading!
- Carl Anthony Grande
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