Personal Fitness Trainer ? decide carefully

September 3rd, 2010 | by admin |

Here’s something refreshing. As a Personal Trainer, I don’t mind if my clients eat chocolate mud cake, ice-cream or pizza. Seriously! When they tell me their partners are taking them out to dinner, they are attending a function or a celebration – I say enjoy it and eat whatever you like!

Different people need different levels of compliance to see results when it comes to health and fitness. However, for the majority of people its 80/20. If you’re doing the right things 80% of the time, then chances are your healthy. The remaining 20% is breathing space where you can splurge.

So let’s say you have the basics in place. You go for a morning walk, eat a healthy breakfast, have 3 serves of vegetables with lunch, drink plenty of water throughout the day, often do a short weight training session after work and have at least another 3 serves of vegetables with dinner. If that’s the habitual routine you’re in and you decide to go out to dinner, come Saturday night, eat whatever you like! Since your daily habits are positive that takes care of the 80%. Saturday night dinner falls into the other 20%.

Life never goes as planned; there are always things to throw us off track. There are times you won’t be able to do your workout for whatever reason. There are unexpected family emergencies, injuries, setbacks, celebrations and that Saturday night dinner. It’s all part of life, and there will never be a ‘perfect time to start’ when you will be able to have 100% compliance to a diet and exercise routine. It’s just not realistic. Life goes on, kids get sick, work gets busy. . . . but here’s the refreshing news:

You don’t have to be perfect, you just need to be consistent.

The 80/20 rule certainly does not give you an excuse to be lazy, but it does give you some room to breathe.   Of course, exceptional results require exceptional effort, in which case you may need to bump up the figure to 90/10, or even 95/5. The level of compliance required depends on the results you want to see.

 

However, results (both positive and negative) come from consistent action, not jumping on and off diets or fitness fads. What small habits can you change that will bring you positive results?

 


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