Posted on March 16, 2010.
Personal Fitness Trainer - decide carefully Here's something refreshing. As a Personal Trainer , I do not mind if my clients eat chocolate mud cake, ice cream or pizza. Seriously! When they tell me their partners to take them to dinner, they participated in a ceremony or celebration - I say enjoy it and eat whatever you want!
Different people need different levels of compliance to see results when it comes to health and fitness. However, for most people in his 80/20. If you do the right things 80% of the time, then chances are your health. The remaining 20% breathing space where you can splurge.
So let's say you have the basics in place. You go for a morning walk, eat a healthy breakfast, have three serves of vegetables for breakfast, drink plenty of water throughout the day, often a weight training session short after work and have at least 3 serves vegetables with dinner. If this is the usual routine and you decide you're going out for dinner, come Saturday night, eat what you want! Since your daily habits are positive that takes care of 80%. Saturday night dinner in the fall another 20%.
Life happens as planned, there are always things to throw us off track. There are times you will not be able to do your workout for some reason. There are unexpected family emergencies, injuries, chess, holidays, and dinner on Saturday evening. It's all part of life, and it will never be an "ideal time to start" where you will be able to have 100% compliance to diet and exercise routine. It is simply not realistic. Life goes on, the children fall sick, work is busy .... but here are the new cool:
You do not have to be perfect, you just need to be consistent.
The 80/20 rule certainly does not give you an excuse for laziness, but it gives you some room to breathe. Of course, exceptional results require exceptional effort, in which case you may need to raise the figure to 90/10 or even 95 / 5. The level of compliance required depends on the results that you want to see.
However, the results (positive and negative) from a coherent, do not jump on and off regimes or modes of fitness. That small habits can be changed which will bring positive results?