Right. This is an excellent question. Fat loss experts know that you can either set yourself up for success or for failure, depending on your planning or lack thereof.
With the right action steps in place, your fat loss and strength building plan can become a super-body-in-a-swim-suit success story. Let’s look at five easy success-building steps you can take today.
1. Fix Your End-Goal Firmly In Your Mind
Don’t just say I want to lose weight or I want to get fit. Form a realistic picture of exactly where you want to be three months or six months from today. Think specifically in terms of pounds and inches lost. Write it down.
Look through magazines and gather some pictures of folks with healthy, toned bodies. Place these all over your home – on the fridge, on the television, on your bathroom mirror, on your cupboard door. Just make sure that you get to see those images constantly. Imagine being there already.
Create a clear mind-picture of the fun waiting for the new, slim, healthy and toned you. Feel how much easier you will move. See yourself having fun with the kids. Feel yourself without all the aches and pains that come with being overweight and unfit.
It is a well-known fact that, with frequent exposure, your sub-conscious will pick up on the message that this is where you need to be and move you in the right direction.
Try not to focus on the pain of getting there. Keep your mind and your eyes firmly fixed on the pleasure of having a fit and healthy body that looks great in a swim-suit.
2. Gather A Team Of Loyal Supporters Around You
Try to get a friend or two to follow the workout program with you. You can then motivate and support each other. Gather friends, colleagues and other allies around you who can help you to stay on track.
Don’t do this alone – that makes it too easy to lump it once it gets a bit tough. Make sure you have folks who are going to ask you how it is going.
3. Get A Step-By-Step Program That Tells You Exactly What To Do
If you don’t know exactly how to tackle your fat loss program, you are setting yourself up for failure. You need a fixed plan that tells you to do a certain set of exercises for a set period of time. No waffling. Just a step-by-step plan that is realistic, doable and doesn’t take too long. A proven success-formula that is already working for other folks. Preferably a program that changes every few weeks.
You need to ’surprise’ your muscles from time to time if you want to avoid the dreaded workout plateau where you don’t see any progress for weeks on end.
4. Don’t Make Cardio Work The Main Focus
If you want to see real, measurable, quick results, don’t opt for boring cardio workouts that take forever to complete. No, if you want to set yourself up for fast fat loss success, you have to go for a strength training workout. Building muscle strength and losing fat go hand in hand.
Best of all, personal trainers have discovered that a strength training focus asks for much less in terms of training time. That is why coach Craig Ballantyne was able to come up with a regimen of just 45 minutes three times a week. In the process, you will get a total body workout made to incinerate calories at an amazing pace. You will literally begin to see the fat melting away in double-quick time.
5. Get Started Today
Don’t allow yourself to get bogged down in loads of confusing information. There are tons of programs and tips out there today. If you want, you can continue to do research for a long, long time. This won’t get you to lose one single inch of fat. All you need to get started today, is one time-tested program that has a proven track record.
Keep these five easy steps to fat loss success in mind, and the new you is sure to emerge very soon…
Written for activity-sports-fitness.com by R Susan.