Seb's Tips To Success
- If you are beginning your first exercise session for a long time and have any worries regarding your health ask your doctor first.
- Choose activities that are fun but challenging, if you enjoy it you will stick with it!
- Wear comfortable, properly fitted footwear and comfortable, loose-fitting clothing appropriate for the weather and the activity.
- Look at your time management and make exercise part of your routine, set times are good but be flexible too, you have 2 or more sessions to fit into 7 days
- Try to burn on average between 300 – 500 calories per session and drink water throughout your session
- ‘Change nothing and nothing will change’ Variety is the key to success, keep pushing the body by reassessing your workout to ensure you keep progressing and not regressing
- Introduce activity into your lifestyle, don’t look for the nearest parking space to the supermarket entrance, use the stairs instead of the lift, walk that 5-minute journey instead of driving.
- Surround yourself with the right people, someone to give you motivation, support and praise for your achievements.
- Don’t over do it, rest days are just as important to allow the body to recharge so your performance levels stay high.
- If you really struggle with motivation try a personal trainer or a class for that bit of TLC or group motivation
- Remember to treat yourself, reward success. You’ve hit one of your goals so you’ve deserve it
- Drink plenty of water, as being dehydrated will affect your ability to lose weight. Look at drinking at least 2 litres, up to 3 litres a day with exercise.
- Eat yourself thin don’t starve yourself fat, eating little and often this will train the body to use your food for energy not to store it as fat. By starving yourself you are training the body to store fat for the next time you starve it.
- Don’t eat whilst watching TV, when you eat messages are sent to the stomach to ask if your full, when you are distracted this message gets lost and you continue to eat until you physically can’t eat anymore.
- When you have eaten your meal, if you still feel hungry wait 5 minutes, if this hunger is still there then have another small serving, if its gone which will be the case 99% of the time then you haven’t overeaten.
- When putting your food on your plate don’t let different foods touch. For example your Sunday roast, don’t let any of your vegetables, potatoes or meat touch one another. This will help with portion size and stop you overeating.
