“Fitness is a journey, not a destination.” An old coach of mine once said that “once you start lifting weights, you’ll never be 100% happy with your body ever again.” I know that initially sounds like a reason to never start, but what she meant was that you’ll soon get addicted and always want to better yourself, while hopefully realising that you should and can actually love your body the way that it currently is. Love the process and appreciate what it can do and what it has achieved already. Do you think Olympians stop training once they win gold in a race? “A goal is a dream with a deadline.” Create smaller time-orientated actions that will help you on your way. You want to lose 10kg? It won’t happen overnight, so create a plan for 1 week that you’re going to stick to. Once you’ve done that then move onto the next one, and the larger goal won’t seem as daunting. “Abs are made in the kitchen.” There’s no point in killing yourself in the gym if you scoff down a pizza every evening – do an all around strength training programme and work hard on having a more […]
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