Let’s make this snappppy!
Here’s what we’ll crush today:
- Why you *may* not be seeing the results you want from your workout efforts!
- The BEST 4-minutes of your day
- My Top Yummiest Recipes of ‘Gross’ but Insanely Healthy Foods!
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Why you *may* not be seeing the results you want from your workout efforts!
Three pesky reasons you may not be achieving what you want from your SWEAT:
- You are doing too much cardio!
- Too much cardio can do a number on your muscle mass. So if you are desperately trying to crush your strength training so you can build some muscle and look amazing, then you add a bunch of runs into your program? It’s like building up a beautiful lego tower then smashing it apart. And then you are just left to pick up the pieces. Stay focused. If your goal is weight loss and/or muscle gain, curb the long cardio sessions that break down your metabolism-boosting muscle. Steady-state cardio does next to nothing for fat loss – but it can help with sore muscles. So pick your battles!
- You are not diet-consistent: whether you want to believe it or not – there is a reason for the ‘whys’ and ‘whens’ of your well-planned diet. Here are a few examples:
- Depending on where you are at in your training experience, you may need to go through a somewhat carb-restrictive few weeks in order to reset your body’s hormonal response to certain foods. If you have a ‘belly’ and love handles, you may have some problems with insulin resistance and it’s really important to give your body a SUGAR break so that insulin can begin to work properly again in your body, you know, helping to shuttle sugar into your muscles instead of just letting it swim around in your blood stream. And for this consistency is KEY. You can’t do it for 5 minutes and expect your whole system to magically reset. It takes time. And the benefits are a million-fold.
- If your goal is fat loss and you are drinking sugary drinks during your workouts? You are defeating your purpose. Only those who are naturally skinny, with thin arms and legs (ectomorphs) need engage in SUGAR while working out – they need it because of how efficiently their body’s deal with sugar. If you are not an ectomorph, don’t fall prey to the ‘I need sugar for energy’ hoopla during a workout. If you are running a marathon? Go ahead! If you are up at 5:30am to crush a workout and loose the baby weight? DON’T SABOTAGE YOURSELF. Timing matters.
- You are not enjoying the process.. And by this I don’t mean you have to smile while desperately trying to press 40lbs over your head. But rather, you can’t see the joy in the process because your happiness depends on getting a result. There’s a few things that will stop you from ever seeing that result when you think this way:
- You really won’t be able to push yourself hard enough to see lasting change. Why? Because if you don’t grant yourself the little victories of ‘finally being able to press 20lbs dumbbells’ over your head, you’ll never even try to press 20lbs dumbbells over your head! If new personal bests don’t excite you, or if taking pride in your body’s amazing abilities doesn’t fire you up? You’ll never see what you want to in the mirror because you’ve blocked it in your mind.
- You won’t continue the lifestyle. It’s human nature to stop doing things that we don’t like. New things are tough. It’s like birthing something new. And when you birth something – there are labour pains right? Labour is enough to freak out most people. That’s why there has to be joy in the process instead of just in the result. You have to be able to look inside and find the joy you THINK will come when you see yourself with your dream physique. There’s no tapping in and tapping out.. You have to know what you want to achieve, why you want it, and be grateful enough to see that along the way, you are dripping in little, beautiful, joy-filled victories.
Now, rid yourself of these pesky things and go get what you want! <3
The BEST 4-minutes of your day
Go ahead – try this: 30 seconds on, 30 seconds off… 4 minutes total! Set your interval timer and GOOD LUCK!
30 seconds of BURPEES with a PUSHUP [Jump up, hands down, feet out behind you, push up, feet jump back up to either side of your hands, jump high up into the air], 30 seconds rest
30 seconds double barrel SQUATS [Squat down, do a 1/4 squat at the bottom, come up, do a 1/4 squat at the top, squat down and repeat], 30 seconds rest
[REPEAT] 4 minutes:)
My Top Yummiest Recipes of ‘Gross’ but Insanely Healthy Foods!
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You GOT this!
Krista
