Admit it you’ve given up on your body for ’07!
You might as well just wait till the New Year’s
resolutions come around to fix your bulging waist line!
Late October brings the first early morning frost, you wrap
up warm to scrape the car window of ice and at that moment
you go into hibernation for the next few months, waiting
for the days to get longer again. The thought of a nice
warm pub after work or you sofa and a cup of hot chocolate
certainly seems more appealing than the gym!
I bet you have heard every excuse in the book from your
friends and family, about why they can’t start
training now! I’d hazard a guess that some have
slipped from your lips too…
“It’s too dark in the evening to go for a
run”
“I don’t have any workout clothes that fit
me”
“I have too much work on this month”
“There are just too many social occasions in December
that will spoil my efforts”
“I’ll be much more motivated in the New
Year”
Will you??
The problem with conceding defeat now is that you’ll
be in more of a bind in two months time, your frustration
and lack of self efficacy will be many times worse. At
which point many of us will turn to the infamous
“infomercial” products that promise to burn
just that bit of fat below your ribs and above your thighs.
Or we get duped into a weight loss plan that gives you an
expensive bucket of powder and pills to consume every day.
The change of the clocks seems to mark the time when it is
just too late to achieve anything for this year, so why
bother starting? There has probably been a number of
psychological studies done that give fancy names to this
phenomenon.
SAD or not, it is time to buck up your ideas because in the
remaining 2 months of this year it is actually possible to
achieve your usual New Year’s goals BEFORE new year!
The good news is that there are many things you can do
today that will ensure your New Year’s resolutions
have a different feel to normal. There are workout plans
coupled with the right nutritional strategies to cope with
even the heaviest of party seasons.
Action is required on your part, you can’t just sit
there, nod and agree with my ramblings, So get off your
butt and do the following 5 steps:
1. Either join a gym, or buy a stability ball, exercise mat
and some small hand weights. This will allow you to do most
exercises.
2. Get out your scheduler for the next 4 weeks and mark on
4or 5 30-40 minute slots that you can get to the gym and/or
do a quick routine at home. (If this means sacrificing an
episode of “The Simpsons”, then so be it. It
will get repeated )
3. Get a bit of paper and write down your 6 favorite and 6
least favorite bodyweight or free-weight exercises. Split
them evenly into 2 workouts.
If you don’t know any exercise, buy a copy of
Men’s Health or Women’s Fitness and take some
from there. Make sure you include some squats, lunges,
overhead lifting exercises, and some exercises for the
upper back and shoulders.
Guys, stay away from the Bench Press(It is not big or
clever!), Girls(and guys) steer clear of abdominal crunch
exercises, your time is better spent elsewhere!
4. Alternate your workouts, so Monday do workout 1,
Wednesday - workout 2, Friday – workout 1 again
5. On the days in between, and at any other time do a
cardio workout. But make it short and intensive! After a 5
minute warmup, go really hard for 1 minute, then go slow
for 2 minutes, repeat 5 times and finish with a cool down.
This cardio method has been proven by many scientific
studies to be far superior for burning body fat than the
“traditional” fat-burning zone cardio workouts.
So avoid long, slow, (and quite frankly boring) walking or
plodding on the treadmill.
We have found this and similar methods of workout to be the
most effective way to burn body fat, drop a dress size and
maintain a strong, healthy body.
One of my clients recently emailed me to tell me she bought
2 new pairs of jeans that were 2 sizes smaller than her
size before following this system of training. She told me
she wanted to buy more, but was afraid her husband would
notice them on the credit card bill! I was actually more
pleased to see a complete turn around in her confidence
with her body in just over a 2 month period.
So you see the action you take NOW, as soon as you are done
reading this article, really can make the difference. Yes
it is tough getting through the long dark winter months,
but the solution is not beyond the realms of possibility is
it?
In fact it is pretty straight-forward to plan in some short
workouts into your busy week. You don’t need
expensive equipment, and sacrificing a little TV time is a
small price to pay for a whole different set of New Years
resolutions.
What will be your New Years resolutions come January 1st,
because it looks it we have got your weight loss covered
already!!!
Tim
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Tim Goodwin is a fitness professional specializing in help
the busiest people achieve more with their amateur sporting
interests, and at the same time ridding them of excess body
fat. Visit http://www.getfit.lu/success.html to get a free
18 page report "How to lose weight even when you are really
busy" containing a full 4 week program which you can start
today!
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