It is human nature to try to find the easy way to do something. It really is. Humans are lazy creatures by default. It is simply easier to do nothing than to do something. But people know they should do something. Many times in order to do this something, people attempt to find something easy to do.
“So what do you do for a living?”
“I work in the health and wellness field”.
“So are you like a personal trainer?”
“No, I am more into a holistic approach to health”.
“So you do acupuncture and stuff?”
Too many people, fitness professionals especially, put a short term emphasis on health and wellness. Even when you look at the fitness industry as a whole, most focus on short term fixes rather than life long changes. A new 90 day fitness program. A new 6 week diet. They are great ways to get started, but most people fall into the “whats next” conundrum and have no idea where to go after the initial time frame. This causes most people to go right back to where they started, only to jump into another diet or workout program that will only yield the same results. This creates the yo-yo effect that sadly too many people go through when it comes to their health.
I have told you time and time again that fitness isn’t just in the physical sense. Fitness is being fit in every single area of your life. Sadly, many “experts” in the field only focus on the physical and leave out other aspects that need to be addressed.
Sleeping is an aspect of your health that many people over look. Everyone knows to try to get 8-hours of sleep each night. Knowing that and getting that are two separate things. There are some people who try to get that, but toss and turn all night, or wake up in the middle of the night, or wake up before their alarm and don’t get a full 8 hours of sleep. There are a few other people who just don’t get that much sleep for various reasons (students, workaholics, plain crazy people). Getting a full nights rest is important to your health, and here is why:
I don’t review/endorse many products on this site. This site isn’t a site for me to plaster you with ads of some random product because it will make me a buck. That isn’t how I roll. I focus on quality content, giving you information that will help you toward living a healthier, stronger, happier life. The only things I recommend to you are products I use myself, or books and other information that I have read that are a MUST read. Which is why I bring you….
If I were to ask you what your favorite part of your day was, how many of you would saying waking up in the morning? I would think very few of you actually here your alarm go off and jump out of bed, ready to take on the day full speed ahead. Morning just isn’t people’s strong point. Most people slam their alarm snooze button, roll out of bed, drag themselves through their morning routine, then chug off to the 9-5. And people wonder why they have bad days when their morning starts like this. If you can develop a morning routine that is positive, and you can get excited to wake up, you will see a drastic change in every aspect of your life. Your morning needs to be the most important part of your day.
I wrote a post about strength training for women awhile back and it has been one of my most read post on this blog (over 5,ooo views in 3 months! Thank you all for reading it). In that post, I basically called out women to stop being afraid of weight lifting and start getting after it. Today, I want to cover the same topic, but address to ALL of you reading this.
I recently changed the tag line of Ninteman Fitness. Originally, my tag line was Real. Simple. Results. I loved that tag line because that is what I am all about.
Real – Results have to be real. Too many people discuss results, without ever actually getting results. They talk about the diet they are on. They talk about what the doctor told them to do. They talk about the latest book they read, but nothing ever gets done. They still are as sick as before they opened the book. If you truly want to get healthy, you have to get real and get results.
Let me throw a scenario at you and see if you can relate. You finally started training consistently. Whether you are training competitively, or you just started back in the gym, or even started on a weight loss regime. You start off and everything is going smoothly. You are starting to see results come each and every workout that you hit. You are feeling great and you have all the motivation in the world. Then the results get slower. And slower. And slower. And eventually you can’t get results to save your life. You try different things but end up just getting frustrated because you aren’t seeing the results that you once did so you give up.
