Mega Makeover May: Tips for Starting Your fitness journey

Are you looking to transform your body and achieve your fitness goals? With Mega Makeover May, now is the perfect time to kickstart your fitness journey and make a positive change in your life. As an experienced personal trainer, I've helped hundreds of clients achieve their fitness goals and establish healthy habits that last. Here are some tips to help you get started:

1. Incorporate variety into your workouts: Doing the same exercises and routines over and over can lead to boredom and plateauing in your progress. When clients reach out to me saying that they are bored at the gym, I know that they're using the same 10-15 exercises over and over again and they're not getting anything out for them any longer. This has nothing to do with a common method of “surprising your muscles with new exercises each session”. That is just hectic approach to fitness that will get you nowhere.

It is so common for gym goers, especially in the beginning, to avoid a lot of good effective exercises out of fear of hurting themselves or fear of looking silly. Clients also avoid certain movements because they are uncomfortable and cause more soreness than they would like.

Variety is also not just about exercise selection but als about the way you load your movements. For example, if you have been doing repetitions of 15 for months and months on end I know you're not getting anything out of those workouts anymore and you are missing out on different repetition ranges and different strength qualities that are not you are not training.

2. Set realistic goals: Consistency is key when it comes to achieving your fitness goals. If you were to set unrealistic goals that do not take your calendar or your health concerns into consideration you will fail your plan no matter how perfect the plan is for you. Be honest with yourself and your trainer. I would rather have my clients commit to 2-3 quality workouts than to 5 workouts that will be mediocre or skipped all together.

3. Focus on strength training and remember to incorporate cardio into your routine. Resistance or strength training will deliver the most body transformation results. Start planning your week by scheduling your gym sessions. Adding cardio routine to that whether it’s low intensity slow pace (LISS) format or high-intensity interval training (HIIT) will help speed your progress up.

Remember, starting a fitness program is a process, and it takes time and effort to see results. Don't get discouraged if you don't see progress right away. However, if you have been consistently training for one or two months and you are still not noticing any changes reach out to me and we will find the gaps in your training program and we’ll correct your program mistakes. Let's make this Mega Makeover May the start of your fitness journey! You can reach out to me by clicking here.

How long will it take to tone up?

I know we’re all impatient. Now more impatient than ever because our lives have been put on a year long pause and we want to get results yesterday. 

How fast you get noticeable results from exercising and dieting depends on a few factors: how dramatic of a change you want to see, how far you are from it, and the effort you’re willing to put in. The effort being the most valuable factor. 

It will take a beginner to intermediate trainee 8-12 weeks to drop about 10-15 lbs of fat. That will result in looking leaner, tighter and more athletic. 

If you are already lean and want to build, it can take 24 and more weeks to put on significant amount of muscle on. 

For some it might be all of the results they need to see. So they will get into the program and out into a maintenance phase. While it’ll be only a beginning of their fitness journey for others.

So many individual factors go into determining success of a client’s journey. How much time can you make for training? How consistent can you get with your nutrition? Will you put in effort into the bonus steps that speed up your results? How patient are you willing to become? This is why training is, in fact, PERSONAL. Even one consultation will show what you can do better. 

In general, no matter your goal, 8 weeks will show if you’re on the right path. If nothing is happening in that time, something needs to change.

Bring on those post pandemic gains! Click here to schedule your initial consultation.