#1 Obstacle: Procrastination
Taking small steps, every day, towards your goal is mandatory. It’s important to start, and it will become easier as you go. It takes time to build in the lifestyle changes necessary to not only achieve your goals, but to maintain them for life. Too often we get caught up in waiting for the perfect moment, but it never comes. That’s just life. So get moving!
#2 Obstacle: Expecting miraculous change ‘overnight’
This is the lie that so many of the diet and weight loss ‘gurus’ tell you in order to sell their gimmicks, gadgets, pills and potions. Don’t fall for it. The body can only release 1-2 pounds of fat per week on a consistent basis. Set goals that are realistic, and with the right guidance and plan, you’ll be armed with the blueprint for success.
#3 Obstacle: Not having a plan
Without a plan, you rely only on how you feel each day as motivation to do what’s necessary. Inevitably, there will be days when you just don’t feel like doing what’s necessary. That’s okay – and it can easily be overcome if you have the right plan – but you’ll want to consult a Toronto personal trainer with the knowledge and experience to help you make your plan.
#4 Obstacle: Being too ‘gung-ho’
Doing too much, too soon, is the kiss of death. Your body isn’t ready for it, you will make yourself sore or be too restrictive with your eating, resulting in unnecessary pain and suffering that sabotages the best laid plan. Worse, you could potentially injure yourself. This is a biggie, okay. And yet another reason you need the right plan, which can be simple when you have the right kind of help.
#5 Obstacle: Awaiting a love affair with fitness
Most people just aren’t fitness fanatics and most people (myself included) really enjoy eating. You just won’t fall in love with exercise and supportive eating…unless you take very specific steps that are consistently rewarding and reinforcing that positive behavior. There’s lots of psychology to improving your health. You need to understand how your mind and emotions work – not just how your body works – if you want to get real results.
#6 Obstacle: Not making your health a priority
“I just don’t have time!” is the most common ‘objection’ I hear from folks who want to improve their health, but won’t commit to it. The reality is that the quality of your life is dictated almost entirely by your HEALTH. As your health goes, so goes the quality of your day-to-day experiences. Being sick, being overweight, having eroded self-esteem, nagging and bothersome health conditions, high blood pressure, etc., etc. – these things take away, dramatically, from your quality of life. And they can shorten your life, too. With the right strategy in place, fitness and supportive nutrition can become as simple and routine for you as brushing your teeth. Really.
#7 Obstacle: Not understanding how your body works
You have probably been conditioned to think that exercise has to be an intense, heart-pounding, exhausting experience for it to count. That no-pain-no-gain thinking has changed. You will be pleasantly surprised by how easy it is to fit exercise into your day, particularly when you see how you can make daily progression, daily improvements. But your biggest “A-HA” moment will have to do with nutrition. Making very simple adjustments to your diet will have a tremendous, metabolism-accelerating effect. Knowing how your body metabolizes fuel changes everything for you.
#8 Obstacle: Not ‘spicing it up’ with variety
You cannot do the same thing indefinitely and expect to keep seeing results. How many Toronto fitness clubs are filled with people who do the same routine every day and never make progress? When you understand better the range of workouts you can do, how simple, fun and engaging they can be, and how quickly they can bring about results, you will realize that variety is the spice of life. The same goes for your nutrition. You don’t have to give up everything you love (overly restrictive diets do NOT work), and you can still get the results you want. There is a very profound ‘secret’ to supportive nutrition that you need to know – and that has to do with having a strategy which allows you the room to make mistakes as you progress and rewards you for your efforts.
All of these potential obstacles stem from not having the knowledge to put a complete program together, not having a workable plan of action that integrates all the components required for your success, and not having the support system required to make the lifestyle changes you need to make.
These are all problems which are easily overcome by enlisting the support of a qualified Toronto personal trainer who uses a proven system that delivers results. If you’re someone that’s struggled in the past, or you’re just not sure where to start, I encourage you to take the next step and work with a Toront0 personal trainer that guarantees your success. Click Here to find out how.
