Sunday 18 January 2009

Consistancy is the Key

Go to any bookshop and look in the diet section. Now count how many books there are. 10? 20? 100? 1000? All diff rent; Atkins,Weight Watchers, The South Beach Diet, I remember the cabbage soup diet. Which one have you used? One, Two, ALL?



Now how can there be so many diet books and which one works? Well they all do. And that goes for workouts too. The thing with fitness workouts is that you have to establish a base level and work your way up. The same as a diet.



For example every month there is a new fitness magazine out showing you how to do the same exercise. Just how many times do you need to be shown how to do a bench press or a triceps kickback by a different fitness model?


So its the same with BOTH dieting and keeping fit. Everyone wants to look like the fitness model demonstrating the exercises or promoting the eating plan but not everyone can succeed and achieve the look.



Dieting isn't fun and (as much as I try to make to be as diverse as possible) exercise can also be boring. As much as I wish you could, you cant magically transform your body by buying a diet book or a gym membership. Sorry but its hard work all the way until...



It becomes second nature to you and you live life like a fitness model. That's when you don't even think that you are on a diet and exercise becomes as much of a habit as brushing your teeth. You've got to find your own way. I'd love to guide you but you have got to make that conscious decision to make it happen and then get busy.



In fact here is a great tip from Mark (who lost a lot of weight last year) Mark found that doing his workout at the same time every day helped him stick to the plan and achieve his goals.



Consistency with Marks workout and diet helped him. Mark lost over a Stone in weight in 2008


Looking Great Mark

So if you can be consistently good in keeping to your diet and your workout you will achieve YOUR goal. If you are consistently bad then you wont. Check out this vid:







So in 2009 lets all eat better and exercise consistently





MM


P.S. A high profile client of mine (film star) consistently ate carrots for the duration of the shoot. She (oops that's narrowed it down). She lost loads of weight unfortunately she also turned orange! That fucked up continuity :-)