Heres a few tips to beat the WINTER BLUES….
It’s a hard pill to swallow that discipline and motivation can come in peaks and downfalls and not always stick around until they’re not so heavily relied on.
It’s really clear that on any journey to bettering your health, wellness and kicking body transformation goals you need to dig deep to make those desired changes as sometimes the most sought after success sits outside of your comfort zone.
So you’re in a mid year blue and lacking motivation, how do you put that pep back in your step?
1. Firstly, get yourself a plan. Equip yourself with a meal plan, food prep and be aware of your calorie and macro targets. Make sure there’s some sort of plan in place that takes care of your diet which will be the dominant driver of your results.
2. Set New Goals & Get a goal striving partner. Setting new goals and intentions for the new season may help. As it gets colder you may want to focus more on your daily habits and new performance goals to keep that fire burning through winter and make getting to the gym easier. Buddying up or getting partnered up with a support person can help ignite those flames of motivation and keep them alight when you’re struggling to do so on your own accord. A pick-me-up person can be someone also chasing a goal and the person that hype girl/mans you up when you’re feeling flat and need a reminder of your goals.
3. Exercise and make a habit of it. Getting up a little earlier and working out before you start work or during your lunch break can help you boost your productivity for the day. This, combined with the endorphin rush can help you feel more motivated personally as well as keep you on track with your healthy eating and weight loss goals.
4. Plan your food ahead of time. Eating as you go while meeting intake goals can be problematic and open the floodgates for losing track, making errors and consuming a poorer choice when it’s too late to make a modification. Our most successful clients pre-plan their day especially in circumstances of dining out or being out of routine. This also increases the likeliness of adhering too. Try and prep your food more than relying on dine out options. Meal prepping ahead of time will also aid in a pep in your step and avoiding failure.
5. Focus on mindset and sustaining positivity. Whether it be trusting the process, or consciously filtrating your mind with positive thoughts - a positive attitude can really help pull you through slumps of low motivation. People who remain in a positive state rarely need to be reminded of why they began their journey in the first stance given the continuous and consistent enjoyment of the process. Having a positive mindset is like being on a ride at a theme park and just not wanting to get off, enjoying all the motions!
6. Pre Plan or Sleep in Workout clothes for Early risers - honestly this is a game changer. Sleeping in your workout clothes not only keeps you snug as a bug at night, but you also literally just roll out of bed and off tot he gym! No getting that body cold by changing clothes!
Its cold in the mornings, we get it. We are cold too. But if you think practically you will warm up in no time and be sweating it out so dont fall into the trap of letting the weather be an excuse to derail you from your goals.
Team Techno 🤟