Reasons Why You Haven't Reached Your Training Goals |
Posted: February 21, 2018 |
Over the Past Few Years at Newcastle Gyms, We’ve found 3 common mistakes that come up pretty common with the people we have worked with in the past and want to share them with you so you can stop making the same mistakes. 1. YOU DON’T EAT ENOUGH PROTEIN Protein intake is key when trying to promote weight loss and preserve muscle mass while dropping the body fat. Part of the reason why we end up low on protein tends to be the way we have grown up focused around carbohydrate based meals. Cereal for breakfast, sandwiches for lunch, things that work out of convenience rather than function. A good starting point is to aim for between 1.5-2.25 grams per kilo of bodyweight. To give you a simpler way of figuring that out, 100g of most lean meats contains around 25-30g of protein so if you were aiming for 150g of protein for the day you could have 3 servings of 200g of lean meats. 2. YOU LACK DISCIPLINE (THE REAL TRUTH) I get it, things get in the way. But plenty of people out there are still getting up early to go and train even though work is busy or the kids were keeping them up all night or they just wanted to eat pizza. Often we get super motivated but once that subsides we don’t have the discipline to see it through. Now there’s plenty of ways to get around this but often it comes down to stacking the cards in your favor and making it harder for you to fail. Go to the gym with a friend, hire a coach, find a gym close to work, set more than one alarm or the Tim Ferris favorite: write a cheque to an organization that goes against what you believe in and make a friend hold onto it. If you give up then they send the cheque and you just funded something you wouldn’t ever do normally. If you make it to your goal, they give you the cheque back and you shred it.
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