Are Your Goals Realistic and Achievable

Since I qualified as a Personal Training in 2006.
I’ve been able to form a pretty good idea of what people believe is possible.

I’ve seen too many people set themselves up for disappointment,
all because they haven’t even given it though to what’s possible with the lifestyle they lead.
Their goals weren’t personal!

Are your goals realistic?
Being realistic about what you can achieve with the lifestyle and busy schedule you lead is easily overlooked,
very few seem to understand something that I go on about all the time, in the order of importance:

Lifestyle, Nutrition, Exercise!
If you work 10-12 hours a day, only get 6-7 hours sleep and have a reasonable nutrition at best,
how can you achieve the same results as someone that can be flexible with all of these elements?
Some of the social fitness superstars and celeb trainers would have you believe so.

Are you aspiring to be someone or something that’s achievable for you?
It’s human nature to look around and compare, but are you setting yourself up for disappointment before you even started?
Anyone can work out so hard or be beasted( fitness term ) by a Personal Trainer until they can’t move.
It’s mindless to exercise so vigorously you end up having to crawl out the gym and back to the pressure of the office.
At some point, you will probably end up burnt out, with no clue why.

Warning!
If you enter the state of fatigue ( to you that may be needing the weekend to get over the week ), you’re not going to build muscle, improve your fitness or shift fat for love nor money.

I don’t care how determined you are:
You can’t give more than you have.

Signs of fatigue:

• You need a stimulant to wake you up or keep you going throughout the day. (i.e. coffee)
• You’re often under the weather, and you seem to catch what’s going around
• You suffer from being unproductive and find it hard to concentrate
• Frequent feeling of depression or negativity
• You find it hard to sleep at night
• Low sex drive

Bottom Line:
Do you aspire to a body image of a Celebrity or (dare I say) a Personal Trainer? Have a quick think, is my inspiration/motivator doing me justice with all I have going on in my life, and how long can I keep this up before something breaks?

Solutions:

1. Change the phases of your training to include weeks of lower intensity exercise, especially if your work is particularly stressful
2. Concentrate on much shorter resistance training sessions when you haven’t slept long enough
3. Get your sleep and nutrition in order, plan out what you are doing and put it in your diary, then you can hit it harder when these are in place
4. Up the intensity when you feel you have the energy to do so, not because you had a coffee or energy drink
5. Most of all ease up on giving yourself a hard time because you don’t look like someone else, you have a different lifestyle and nutritional requirements, take these into consideration It’s fine to motivated by others but be realistic with the time and energy you have.

Look out for the signs I listed above,
it will make progress a whole lot easier if you do.

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You know what to do!