Have you Crammed for an exam?
It is the week before your final exams for the year, you look at your texts and think ‘How will I know everything I need to for the exam??!!’ So you open the book, make notes, highlight, do practice exams and the final night you are still reading over everything and thinking ‘Arrrgggh, I should have started sooner!!’
Well, I have seen plenty of people ‘cram’ their fitness.
They have waited for a huge event, a wedding, a reunion, something that seems important to them to be in shape for. And they push hard!
And they scrape into what they think they wanted, and after the event, they mostly go back to old habits. Because 1: They didn’t train long enough to maintain the habit 2: They don’t have a subsequent goal to achieve 3: Their short burst sprint was HARD, like really hard, and it cannot be maintained long term.
So what is the answer if you haven’t started an exercise regime this close to Christmas and the New Year?
Start now anyway, but don’t go into it thinking ‘I am going to lose 10 kilos by 31st Dec!’
Look at it as I am getting a start now, to cash in on my fitness in a year’s time.
Think back to November last year, it wasn’t long ago hey?
Now think, if you start moving now and doing something, anything, where could you be this time next year?
With just a little more each week you will have changed so much in a year’s time, your health markers will be better, your home life much better, work easier, and your love life will be very different!
I would love to have you say that you don’t want to cram your health, that you want to improve it, long term, ie for as long as you are actually capable.
And well, that starts now. Right now.
There are two best times to start looking after your health and fitness, five years ago and right now.
So hit me up, see how I can help get you started.