Maintaining a comprehensive fitness plan is hard work.
Other daily routines and life activities & decisions distract you and affect your consistency.
But designing a routine that best works for you while allowing you to perform other life activities can be beneficial.
Is maintaining an effective workout plan difficult?
Or,
Are you are a beginner starting their fitness plan looking for the ideal workout plan?
In this article, I will show you 5 legit ways to help you stay on track with your fitness goals, live healthily, and get that body you’ve always desired.
Let’s dive right in
1. Get a Work-out Partner
Working out is a rigorous journey that is best taken with a partner(s). Having a workout friend who boost your motivation and pushes you to go beyond your limits helps you remain consistent in your fitness program.
Whether you are a solo or social exerciser, there are numerous ways to involve others in your fitness program.
There is always someone in your area who enjoys similar exercise and would be thrilled to buddy up! If you prefer working out alone, online communities on various social sites allow you to chat with others in a similar routine and cultivate a sense of support.
Bottom line?
You need to be in contact with someone who motivates you and helps you track your progress in your workout plan. Like most other rigorous activities, a fitness plan best works when you involve others.
2. Keep a Fitness Journal
Owning a handy place to record your workout helps you keep your week productive and reflect on how far you’ve come!
There are many ways of maintaining a workout journal including a physical notebook, spreadsheet, wellness calendar, and apps.
A fitness journal helps you keep track of your progress and plan an effective and practical workout plan that suits you.
Fitness trackers and apps are the easiest and most convenient forms of workout journals now. Trackers like Fitbit help you track your distance, steps, and heart rate easily. Applications like MyFitnessPal help you record your food and calorie intake.
Bottom line?
Whichever form you choose, keeping a fitness journal motivates you and helps you remain productive and consistent in your fitness plan.
3. Maintain a Healthy Diet
Your diet is an essential part of your exercise that determines your progress or digress in your workout plan.
If your main goal is to lose weight, you should cut your calorie intake, increase your fibre intake, and maintain a rigorous routine to get the desired results.
If your goal is to gain weight, tone muscles or body build, your diet should be high in protein with decent amounts of calories to boost muscle growth and development.
Avoid high-calorie diets like fast foods and fatty diets, and embrace a balanced diet with decent amounts of protein, starch, vitamins, and fibre.
If keeping track of your diet or maintaining a healthy diet proves difficult, you can use phone applications like MyFitnessPal to help you record your food intake.
Bottom line?
Your food intake greatly determines the success or failure of your workout program.
Maintaining a healthy diet can be difficult, but using diet trackers & applications and observing overall personal dietary discipline, positively affects your workout plan and overall well-being.
4. Push Yourself (Go Beyond Your Limits)
You are the single most significant factor that determines the success of your fitness program.
Ultimately, you’re the who decides to hit the gym, go an extra set/mile, or push yourself beyond the limits.
When you begin your routine, it is important to remember that you are your own cheerleader. Doing so turns your fitness results from a dream into a reality.
Some helpful ways of pushing yourself include enjoying your workout plan, involving people with similar desires and watching motivational videos or reading articles before and after your workouts.
Bottom line?
All the other goals are irrelevant if you do not push yourself during your workout program. Failure to do so can demotivate you and crumble your entire fitness plan. You are your biggest motivator, so when you engage in that program, do it as you mean it! Go beyond your limit.
5. Reward Yourself
Incorporating a reward program in your fitness plan greatly benefits you and helps you become a ‘repeat customer’ of your routine every time you accomplish a set goal.
There are numerous ways of rewarding yourself after accomplishing a task in your routine including getting a massage, buying a new outfit, going out to the movies or having one cheat day in your diet every week.
Whatever suits you and motivates you to do more is a good way of rewarding yourself after every workout.
Always remember to maintain a disciplined rewarding program that does not affect the success of your program.
Having numerous cheat days, for example, can make you digress on your plan.
Bottom line?
Rewarding yourself can be beneficial to the success of your workout plan because it motivates you to do more and go an extra mile. It, however, can be detrimental if done haphazardly and without discipline. Always remember to reward yourself when you complete a set goal and choose the reward that best suits your situation.
Conclusion
Maintaining a healthy and effective workout plan can be difficult. When done correctly, a workout plan can help you get your desired results and maintain a healthy life. Whether your goal is to lose weight, gain weight or increase body & muscle mass, the five factors above will go a long way in helping you achieve it.
PS - You are the most important factor in your fitness journey. You are the main decision maker and determiner of the success of your workout program. Personal discipline, hard work, and determination are key to help you realize your fitness goals.
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