The Winter Fitness Blues
June 28th 2009 03:31
By Scott Williams
Well as always at this time of year we experience the winter blues… The dedication to fitness training and looking after the body begins to take a turn for the worst.
Why is this??
The cold winter mornings can play a part, the warmth of the bed is sometimes just too good to leave, we tend to get sicker in winter, we think it is ok it is winter i can put on a few kilos and get it off closer to summer.
The problem with this is the fact that we are all creatures of habit and it takes 21 to 28 days to make a habit in our sub conscious mind, but only a few days to lose it. The longer you take to get back on the wagon the harder it becomes. You say i will start tomorrow, i will start tomorrow, but the problem is that for alot of people tomorrow never comes…
You really need to get it out of your head that it is too hard or too cold, the more you tell yourself this then the more it becomes fact in your world ( your sub conscious mind).
What can you do rectify this problem?
Look for a Personal Trainer or Bootcamp, friend, so you it makes you more accountable, find times that you are more than likely to train ( don’t set the alarm for 5am) kidding yourself that you will get up in the morning, yet knowing in advance that you have no chance of it. Yet when you are at your morning coffee with your friends you say that you set your alram but, but, but, but….
All it takes is a bit of time management to really set yourself for success in the winter months. Plan to train when you know you will go, the mornings are the best time to train for various reasons and i will post a blog about that later, but if you are not a morning person during winter then schedule your gym, health club visit or Personal Training session either during the day or straight after. Be sure to pack your clothes in the car and head straight to the gym. If you go home and say you will go later, what are the actual chances of that happening?? As the time goes by and it gets colder outside, you get more and more comfy on the lounge, your chance become less & less, then the cycle starts again… i will go tomorrow, i will go tomorrow.
If you can find the ways to work around hibernating in the winter months then it really will make the summer swimmers so much easier to attain, and allow us all those few indulgences over winter that we so enjoy.
Remember, it is much easier to keep going and stay in a fitness routine than it is to stop and restart when it is warmer.
Well as always at this time of year we experience the winter blues… The dedication to fitness training and looking after the body begins to take a turn for the worst.
Why is this??
The cold winter mornings can play a part, the warmth of the bed is sometimes just too good to leave, we tend to get sicker in winter, we think it is ok it is winter i can put on a few kilos and get it off closer to summer.
The problem with this is the fact that we are all creatures of habit and it takes 21 to 28 days to make a habit in our sub conscious mind, but only a few days to lose it. The longer you take to get back on the wagon the harder it becomes. You say i will start tomorrow, i will start tomorrow, but the problem is that for alot of people tomorrow never comes…
You really need to get it out of your head that it is too hard or too cold, the more you tell yourself this then the more it becomes fact in your world ( your sub conscious mind).
What can you do rectify this problem?
Look for a Personal Trainer or Bootcamp, friend, so you it makes you more accountable, find times that you are more than likely to train ( don’t set the alarm for 5am) kidding yourself that you will get up in the morning, yet knowing in advance that you have no chance of it. Yet when you are at your morning coffee with your friends you say that you set your alram but, but, but, but….
All it takes is a bit of time management to really set yourself for success in the winter months. Plan to train when you know you will go, the mornings are the best time to train for various reasons and i will post a blog about that later, but if you are not a morning person during winter then schedule your gym, health club visit or Personal Training session either during the day or straight after. Be sure to pack your clothes in the car and head straight to the gym. If you go home and say you will go later, what are the actual chances of that happening?? As the time goes by and it gets colder outside, you get more and more comfy on the lounge, your chance become less & less, then the cycle starts again… i will go tomorrow, i will go tomorrow.
If you can find the ways to work around hibernating in the winter months then it really will make the summer swimmers so much easier to attain, and allow us all those few indulgences over winter that we so enjoy.
Remember, it is much easier to keep going and stay in a fitness routine than it is to stop and restart when it is warmer.
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