Working out can be extremely hard, and if it’s not, then you probably are not doing it right. I see so many people at the gym, who are clearly just guessing. They us a piece of equipment until they feel like it did something for the area of the body that they want to change, then they move on. There is no structure, there is hardly and rhyme or reason, they just shoot for the stars and get frustrated when they don’t see results.
This is not only try for the gym but for nutrition. And we are all guilty of it. There are a million diets out there, and for the most part a lot of them are crap. But something that almost all of them do right or at least well, is they inadvertently cause you to track what you are eating. Same with the gym, if nothing else, grab a structured work out that allows you to easily track what you are doing. But back to nutrition. I’m not one to say, “you need to count your calories”, or even “you need to count your macros”. BUT, keep track for a week. There are a hundred fitness nutrition apps that are able to track food from almost everywhere.
The reason this is so beneficial is, we tend to think we have an idea of what we are eating or what we are doing in the gym, but we don’t realize how far off we really are. I’ve heard it from many trainers before, a client complains that they are at a certain weight, and are eating a certain amount, and they aren’t seeing results. Whether that is to gain or lose weight, and it is like nails on a chalk board to a trainer and they will all say it is bs. That person might be doing the right workouts, but they are not consuming the calories they think they are. We have all been there. Tracking, whether nutrition or your work out, takes the guessing out of things. This way you know where you truly are, not where you think you are. Again, you don’t have to do it for long periods of time, nor do you have to be super meticulous, but checking in here and there can keep you accountable and on track.
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