Have you set health and fitness goals for 2025?
POSTED ON FEBRUARY 6, 2025 BY JOEL FLINT
“It’s not what we do once in a while that shapes our lives. It’s what we do consistently.” – Tony Robbins
New Year’s Goals
You have set a goal that 2025 will be your fittest year yet. Or maybe you have set (dare I say it) a new year’s resolution to change your habits and to be “healthier”. This is great, you are mindful of your health and wanting to be healthier.
We are in February and the new year’s energy has dissipated a little, how are you tracking with your health and fitness goals? Are you smashing it, you have a new routine and are sticking to it? Or did you hit the ground running in January, had a great two week start but have since lost your way once the year started to pick up?
If that is the case that is totally ok. You are here today reading this article, and that highlights you are still motivated to making the change, but might be missing some key ingredients to set yourself up for success.
Break it down
Getting started with training can feel overwhelming if you have never done it before. Or if you have done it successfully in the past, you know how fit and strong you once were, you might be aware of the work that is required, the reps that are required, to rebuild.
I’m here today to help you. I love how I feel mentally and physically from my strength and conditioning training and I want to help others achieve this.
My first suggestion is to break down the parts that make up your training. Or identify the parts you are currently doing well, and choose one thing to work on to make progress towards your goal for the next week. The key is to start small. It’s easy to say “I’ll do X, Y and Z for 6 months”. But if you haven’t been doing this for the past year, putting that type of expectation on yourself may be setting yourself up to fail. And look, we will fall off the band wagon at times, it happens. But if you have layered the habits that create a sustainable training routine (attendance is consistent, working on the right technique, fueling for your training, recovery etc), you can brush yourself off and reset.
Small Steps
So your first step might be to show up to the training you have booked in. Not worry about how you will perform, whether you will be fast enough or strong enough, but to focus on the action of going.
It’s also easy to get caught up in the information overload of health and wellness and wonder if you are doing the “right” type of training. But if you haven’t done any strength training before it can be hard to know what you enjoy and what the “right” type is. Dialling in on this can be important, but being consistent and actually doing the training is the first step.
Consistency is Key
When seeking to make changes and adaptations to your strength and fitness, consistency is key. Short bursts of effort won’t give you long term health results. It’s consistently showing up to train week in week out.
And in case you were looking for the short cut, that magic pill. Well, we believe it’s in the gym. It’s showing up and doing the work. It’s committing to yourself that you will make the time for your health and fitness. We get it, life is busy, work or family commitments can take priority and training can seem like a luxury. But there is something to be valued in making time for yourself, for your health, so that you can show up in other areas of you life full of energy and strength, knowing you have good foundations to stand on.
I hope you are making progress on your health and fitness this year. If you are finding that you are stuck or can’t quite get over that hurdle let me know. I would love the opportunity to chat with you and see how we could help.
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