When life comes full circle
The last 4 weeks have left me with a sense of what it feels like - when life comes full circle!
Getting to introduce the world of Pilates to a 15-year-old, who is the same age as her mother when she first started working out with me has been special.
Seeing her go from “I don’t like exercising” to “I feel strong, I can do this daily!” has been simply wonderful.
How Things Look
I often point out to my clients and students, ‘To make a movement look easy and simple requires a lot of work. Don’t judge an exercise by how it looks.’
Exercises that look fluid and easy, even graceful, often tempt us into wanting to try the same. We overlook the work and time required to reach that level - to make the movement look like that.
Workout for Strength, Not Stress
We have been so deeply conditioned by the ‘no pain, no gain’ workout philosophy that anything less does not feel like a workout.
Why do we feel the need to associate our workout efforts with a negative emotion?
Instead, why do we not choose positive emotions such as strength and energy to reflect our efforts?
What should I eat?
It’s important to find a healthy balance between your eating habits and fitness program. It’s really a loop – where one fuels the other. You need to eat adequately to maintain energy levels, stay healthy and achieve your fitness and weight goals.
You are a work in progress
Fitness is much more than exercise.
It’s a lifestyle. And in this, we are all a work in progress.
Consistency is Key
Consistency is really the key starting point to achieving results in your exercise program; in anything in life actually! After all, no work-out is going to give you results if you don’t actually do it.