Where do you want to go, how are you going to get there?

Written By Harry James Pointon on .

Where are you currently, where do you want to go, how are you going to get there?

These are questions you must answer before starting a health and fitness journey for best results.
Before deciding what you want to achieve, you need to be honest with what your current situation is. When thinking about setting a health and fitness goal…..
You need to have a clear picture in your mind of what you really want to achieve.
You need to think about when you want to achieve it by.
You need to have a think about what you need to do to achieve it.
You need to think about what your prepared to do in order to achieve it.

Have a think about where you are now and whats your starting point.
Have a think about how much excess weight you have or how underweight you are.
Have a think about what bad habits you have that will stop you achieving your results.
Have a think about what you know you need to do to achieve the results you want?

Once you’ve had a think about where you currently are and what you want to achieve, you must ask yourself if your being realistic.

The easiest way to quit on something is to start with expectations that are too high as this leads to disappointment when you don’t achieve what you thought you would. Don’t overestimate your current situation and and don’t underestimate what you need to do.

The easiest way to get really disappointed is to achieve a result you cant maintain. If getting a certain result causes you to live your life in a way you don’t want to live, it wont make you happy.

Although you can be strict for a while, while your motivation lasts it will soon fizzle out and you wont maintain those lifestyle changes.

So when thinking about your goal, when I say be realistic start as you mean to carry on.

Although it could result in faster fat loss as an example, Its pointless cutting alcohol out for a period of time if having a binge on a friday night enhances your life, i.e. its something you enjoy doing, cutting it out wont last and neither will the results achieved.

This is the same for going low calorie, training more often than you will be able to maintain in the long term whether due to work commitments, exhaustion or worse injury from overtraining.

The worst example of this is fitness retreats, yes you can go and live in a completely different way and get results, but what happens when you come back home?

Theres a saying change your environment, change your circumstances. If your ready to change your environment completely the results achieved will be long lasting, but don’t kid yourself and do something you can’t maintain.

Starting an extreme diet and training excessively will result in failure, I can make a guarantee on that for you.

Some of the most overweight people tend to be chronic dieters, they are overweight because they start again and again, programs or agendas that they can’t maintain.

You see the healthiest, fittest, strongest people on earth don’t seem to worry to much about what there eating, they just eat generally good in moderation, they don’t do excessive exercise, they just ensure every time they do, they make small improvements, they don’t compromise rest time, they always get sufficient, as a result they are pretty chilled out in general, because there not hungry, there not tired and there not doing things they don’t want to do.

Don’t chase somebody else’s dream, decide what you want to achieve and chase that at your own pace.

Lead your self up for success not for failure by deciding what you want and setting a realistic goal achievement date.