Not Getting Results ??? What are you thinking!

With thanks to a great friend and athlete Megan Jaffray from Pace and Power.

Some reasons why you may not be getting results:

1. Remembering when..
   Recounting how lean you were when you got married; how athletic you used to be at high school; the bodybuilding contests you won when you were in your early twenties; how fast you’d run a 10km, how much you’d bench press, the size of your skinny jeans.
   Not only is this boring, but allowing your thoughts to linger in the past will keep your actions stagnant. Acknowledging your fatness and your unfitness now will release you to make the necessary changes to be better than you have ever been before in your life!
2. You over-complicate things!
   You don’t need an exercise scientist to stand behind you and yell “Run!”, nor a dietitian to tell you to stop quaffing sweets and chips! Research and ‘finding the best’ trainer/dietician is a great idea, but do get started with physical action – not just theory! Some people lose weeks and even months faffing around, researching and looking for the best trainer / training programme /diet / dietician! Just get started! Get moving!
3. Procrastinating
   This correlates with point number two. You’re always starting on Monday or on the first of the month, or next week, or when your training buddy can…
   Always great intentions – but you never get going! We never see you at training; we never see you declining the office pizza!
4. Illogical (and emotional) about kilojoules
   One plus one equals two. Kilojoules in versus kilojoules out. Fatloss = less kilojoules in; more kilojoules out. However, most of us make it a complicated (and draining) roller-coaster ride!
5. Skirting and shirking
   Blaming your lack of results on your trainer / your medication / your poor genes /your hormones / your age. This is of course prolongs the flawed belief that you’re not fully responsible for your health or your fitness (or your life!).
   “No one is coming” – Dave Campbell
   
6. Knowing it all..
   Someone who is constantly offering annoying advice, but cannot see that his/her own fitness is stunted. Being a receptive student is one of the finest ways to take your body to another level of conditioning and performance.
7. You’re a creative excusologist
   All reasons why you can’t train/eat right today – you have to work late/work early/ entertain customers / it’s your mother-in-law’s birthday/ you have a cold/ you feel tired / you have PMS/ you have a headache.

Take a peek at this! Tis truly one of the most inspiring clips I’ve seen to date