Your Fitness Results Game Plan List for 2012
I’ve put together a list of things for you to dominate your fitness lifestyle in 2012! I’ve combined some tried-and-true fitness fundamentals, combined with some NEW mindset strategies and fat-loss tactics to really give you the edge this year’s list. Enjoy!
1) Start with mindset. From my 12 years as an in-the-trenches trainer, I’ve always found that the superior mindset wins out over any strategy or scientific approach – although you need those things, mindset is job one. It’s true what they say, “where there’s a will, there’s a way.”
First, find out a strong “Why”. Some examples are, “I’m doing this for my kids” or “because when I look better I feel better” or even “If I don’t stay strong, I’m just not myself”.
2) Create goals with a sense of urgency tied to them. For example, sign up for a 5K run and set a goal of losing 10 lbs before the race. Or join a weight loss contest at work, or join our 6-Week Body Transformation Contest coming up in February 2012!
3) Make sure you’re in some type of exercise or training program that keeps you accountable. The thing that saved me years ago was martial arts. If I didn’t have a group of people expecting me to be there, I would never have been able to keep it up. Having a group that expects you there working out, suffering through the tough days and celebrating and laughing during the fun times…that’s important to me, and I’m sure you feel the same.
Remember, there are a lot of options out there. Here’s some ideas:
- Join a cycling team at work
- Join a dance class
- Join our boot camp in Foster City or Mountain View
- Get a personal trainer
- Find a group of workout buddies on Facebook
- Join IGT, our small-group personal training program
- Try dragonboat racing!
4) Get your nutrition in check! If your goal is fat loss, you need to know that nutrition accounts for 80% of your fat loss progress. Don’t rely on exercise alone. The thing about nutrition is that you don’t need to fixate on the word “diet” because lot’s of people equate the word diet with the word failure. Instead, think of your nutrition program as a “corrective” nutrition program, where you are making temporary changes to get you back on track and to see fast results, where you can then make a transition into eating properly as a lifestyle.
One method we’ve found that works really well is to do food logging. Like our last winner of our 6-Week Body Transformation, Peggy, stated, “You don’t even have to log, you just click!”. She’s right. We recommend people us the free website www.myfitnesspal.com to log their foods. Myfitnesspal makes it super easy to log foods, and you take immediate control over your nutrition from the simple, basic action step.
5) Try a to-your-door food delivery service. If food logging is just not your thing…maybe you’ve tried it a bunch of times in the past and for whatever reason it just doesn’t work for you, I’ve got a solution you’ll love. It’s a food delivery service that’s unlike any other.
Great food. It’s flash frozen fresh, no TV dinner crap here! They send a full month of food to your doorstep, and all you do is heat it up and eat it. It’s already perfectly portioned controlled, so you don’t even have to think about it. If food logging isn’t your thing try this. It’s my prediction that for people that really want results in 2012, they’ll combine this food to-your-door solution with a group training program and completely dominate when it comes to fat loss and body transformation!
6) Stop reading and start doing. Well, of course I don’t mean to stop reading. I myself am a read-a-holic, and read everything fitness I can get my hand on to keep my pulse on the best training methods, nutrition plans and fat loss methods. However, I’ve found that some people simply over-analyze, over-read and under-do! At some point, you’ve got to put down the book and step into action. They say thoughts are things, and I believe that to be true, but without action…sorry, you need actually do things to get results in this world!
7) Join a 6-Week Body Transformation Contest. In 2011, this was the thing that catapulted most of our bootcamp clients to really excel in reaching their fat loss goals. As a group, we lost 440 lbs with our last body transformation contest…and in just 6 weeks! Did you remember at the beginning of the year we set a goal to lose 1,000 lbs total amongst our entire bootcamp? Well, we haven’t done our final calculations yet, but I’m bettin’ we’re a bit closer to 2,000 lbs for the year. I’ll let you know once we’re done, but I’m excited about this accomplishment in helping our community get fit!
Our next contest is ready to join, and if you join NOW, you can get an early bird discount! Last time our bootcamp members were free, but that was a beta version of our contest. Now we’re charging $50 for members, and $250 for non-members…but it’s well worth it (the first 10 to sign-up can get an early-bird discount). We’re still giving out two iPad 2’s to the female and male winners, only this time we’re including weekly weigh-in’s, plus some cool prizes for second and third place winners!
Here’s the link for the 6-Week Body Transformation Contest starting February 13th!
http://www.amiando.com/fatlosscontest
…And speaking of awesome lists to help you dominate in 2012, check out this great list of more specific things that will help your fitness goals put together by Jackie and Claudia from SkinnyScoop. Jackie and Claudia are also two of our all-star bootcampers (they also help a lot with our admin stuff in the office…thanks ladies!), so they know what’s up when it comes to being prepared in their workouts!
http://www.skinnyscoop.com/list/fitforlife/best-things-to-eat-post-workout
Fit For Life Solutions wishes you the best in 2012!! Now Go Get ‘Em!
This entry was posted on Friday, December 30th, 2011 at 2:26 pm.
