“Have the courage to light the fire within yourself, and have the courage to be everything you know you can be, and would like to be right now….life is a choice, so choose wisely.”
Many people I meet wish to get lighter and fitter through running, so I thought I would give you a few of our top tips to help keep you on track to achieve your goals & more…
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The problem with most plans is that they can look like an all out major life changing thing which is good and can work for some people.
For other people though the bar is set too high and asks too much and when they fall by the wayside they revert to the way things were as if the plan had never been.
For some maybe the best plan is one of tiny steps.
Look at what you do and try and identify any bad habits you have or things you could do without without without too much heartache and go for those - could be such things as sugar in tea and maybe whether you need a supper and of course reduction in size of portions is a good one. Run with that for a while and see what gives.
With a smaller lifestyle change it is something where one is less likely to fall by the wayside and maybe a bit down the road when the new habit is well and truly embedded revisit.
Running or other excercise will probably initially add weight as muscle builds to be followed by weight loss when the body's metabolic rate changes as it will not want to be be carrying too much weight if you insist on making it go out and run every week.
Above all to be succesfull one must have a life style that is both liveable and enjoyable and one where it is automatic and requires no thought.
The trick though is to get enjoyment out of your running. It could be running against the you that was there when you first started. It could be about races. It could be going out in the wind or rain just so that you can curse them. It could be about enjoying the sun on your back or wind in the face. It could be about the hill that is way too steep or the distance that is too far or the pace that is too fast. It could be about the person whom you have never seen before, that you have just overtaken after trailing them for 10 minutes. It could be about .....