What’s your excuse?
Are you achieving your health and fitness goals? If your answer is Yes then congratulations, keep up the good work and you probably don’t need to read any further.
If you answered No, then do you know why? The reason you aren’t reaching your goals is you. There is quite simply no way of sugar coating it. It’s not your job, or the long hours you do, not because you don’t know how, not because of your genetics. Plain and simple you are making excuses and not good choices. Health and fitness begins and ends with the right mindset. Only by being consistent can you reach your goals. Fitness cannot be stored, it is an ongoing process. The choices you make if you want to achieve your health and fitness goals need to be life-long.
The Webster’s Dictionary describes “excuse” as: a: to make apology for, and the Webster’s Dictionary describes “choice” as: a: the right or power to choose.
Which definition sounds more empowering to you? When you are making excuses for your actions, you are quite simply just playing victim, not to mention you are not taking the proper steps toward your goals.
Only you are in control of either making proper choices or making excuses. So you can have a bad day at work go home sit on the couch, eat bad food and drink alcohol and feel sorry for yourself cause all the world is against you or you can go home, get changed, go for a walk, go to the gym, swimming or whatever you like to do, then come home eat a nutritious meal and realise that you really do have a good life and it can keep getting better.
The formula for success in your health and fitness goals is easy and we’ve all heard it many times over. You need to maintain frequent eating, moderate protein, moderate carbohydrate, and a low fat intake, staying away from processed sugars and bad fats. You need maintain a consistent water intake. Undertake a consistent weight training and cardio routine with a moderate to high intensity. That’s it. There are no secret formulas, pills or potions. There are no short cuts. Never have been and probably never will be. You can find this information in hundreds of books and magazines, thousands of articles on line or ask any of the trainers in the studio.
You need to accept that your desired goals as well as their maintenance take a daily commitment, permanently.
So next time you are have the excuse ready in your in mind and you have a decision to make do the following, think about what your health and fitness goals are.
Make a list of what steps you must do to reach that goal, and then keep them close so you can visually see them daily. Then think about the action you are about to undertake. Now be honest with yourself. Are you making a good choice or will you make excuses?
Whether your goals be retaining youthfulness, increasing strength and power, warding off illness and poor health, controlling body fat levels, adding muscle