consistency

How to regain consistency back in your training, nutrition, and life.

4 ways to start becoming a consistent machine.

 

Consistency is the only real indicator of a successful athlete. This carries over to anybody who isn’t even competing but just wants to work out. Either way, consistency is a deciding factor of whether we were going to get the results that you were trying for. All forms of learning and person of development all depend on the regular repetition of training. Want to be stronger? Be consistent with your workouts. Want to be healthier? Be more consistent with your food choices.

The best program in the world , if there ever was one or if it ever exists, would go nowhere for any athlete if they didn’t they did not have consistency completing the workouts on a regular basis. Sorry if I burst anyone’s bubble, but just cause you paid for the weights, doesn’t mean the weights are going to lift themselves.

All this sounds pretty simple and it is. But anyone can tell you it is not easy all the time. So what are some ways that you can be more consistent in your daily life to make sure you’re getting the results you are currently working for ? in his article we go into a few different ways and how you can regain consistency back in your training, your diet, in your overall day-to-day life.

 

1. Start off by creating an itinerary for your day.
   

Every professional sports team in Collegiate team that I’ve ever been a part of has always had an itinerary for every day, every month, of every year. They give a very detailed outline of what people will be doing and where they will be going every day. You can start doing this in your daily life by mapping out how you want your day to look the night before. So if you just can’t find the time to do yoga in the morning because you find yourself rushing, then you just need to make sure you make the time each morning to do your work out by writing it down on a schedule. This cannot be done in your head. You have to plan it out. You have to plan hour by hour of every day what you’re going to be doing to maximize the efficiency of each day. Do you work all day? I understand that it may be hard for you to get your workouts in after a long day of work, but you just have to plan in the time if you’re not training for a competition of any sort then it makes it even easier. At this point you need to follow your program and whether it’s a 20 min, 30 min, or 1-hour workout you just need to make sure you get it done. Success does not come without a cost. Sometimes that cost is bigger in some things but the payoff is always worth it.

2. Become responsible for either a workout partner, coach or even a program.

This is a great way to start off being more consistent. This will make you more responsible for someone other than yourself. And letting that person down, it’s probably the worst thing you can do in that situation. One of the main reasons people hire a coach it’s for this exact reason. Ideally, your coach should be there in person helping you and supporting you in any way they can, but remote coaching is also very effective. It’s not always ideal, but having someone take you through the process is not only going to hold you more accountable and make you feel more responsible for yourself and for your coach. Same goes with the workout partner. Ideally, they would be there with you supporting you, encouraging you, but you’re not always the case. Sometimes, just like the coach, they cannot always be there and may have to support you remotely. Again, this is still very effective and can make you much much much more consistent than if you were to try and tackle your workouts by yourself.

If you feel like you have the gist of a program, sometimes just hitting percentages on a program is good enough. If you’re going off of program where you have to hit exact percentage is every workout this forces you to be more consistent and hold you and accountability far greater than just a workout randomly.

 

3. Act the part

Base your goals around behaviors and not the overall outcome. This makes it much easier to justify in our minds. If you goal is to lose 50lbs in a month, first of all, that is not realistic, you may not be too happy when that goal is not being met. BUT, if you base your goals and your accomplishments on creating better habits, then you are able to make every outcome positive if you stuck to your new practice. In an “I want it now world” it is easy for us to think that we can achieve our goals in little to no time. Guess what? Anything that is worthwhile takes time. Want to be stronger? Stick to a long-term program because it’s going to take time. Trust me, I see the magazines too. They do not make it easy for us since they are always advertising the new and improved way of working out or dieting. Even our local gyms and CrossFit boxes tell us that their “programming” is the best and only to follow their style of training. Most of the time they don’t have the experience or knowledge to coach and train a group. (this is something to look into if you are joining or are currently part of a gym – who is your coach? What have they done? Who have they coached that is successful AND for how long?)

Look, as long as you make it a point to stay with your behavior goals, you have no other choice other than to succeed.

 

4. Be more Flexible

I know it sounds almost the opposite of being consistent but hear me out. I am talking about be more flexible with yourself and your time. Sometimes when we miss a workout or have a bad meal, we tend to think to ourselves like nothing matters anymore. Then we just fall off the wagon. I don’t think you should even be thinking about “getting back on the wagon” because you’re always on this wagon. (what?) Yes, you have already decided this was going to be your life, so now it’s time to own up to it. If you miss a workout on Wednesday, don’t beat yourself up and skip out the next couple workout or even try and make that one up. Simply just keep going like nothing happened or if you need to just do it the next day. There really is no reason for you to drive yourself crazy because you missed a workout or meal. Be more flexible with yourself and you will find that things are actually a lot easier to schedule and accomplish in the long run. We are playing the long game when we commit to this life of training. You may not hit your goals within the first 3 months and you should know that. You need to view your training over the course of 6 months, 1 year, etc. But at the same time, this means you need to keep track of what you’re doing during your training and meal prep. Because it is not possible to skip an entire month and expect to see results. This all depends on your goals and ultimately it is up to you and your coach to determine what those are.

 

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