Are you tired of complicated workout plans or unrealistic work out tips that just don't motivate you to stick to your fatloss plan? John Basedow creator of Fitness Made Simple shares motivating tips to keep you on track and make workouts simple, effective, and most importantly enjoyable.
Stimulate Your Mind As Well As Your Body
I worked with a client a while back who tracked every exercise, set, rep, calories, weight and bodyfat on a fancy spreadsheet that charted his progress. He did the same boring workouts all the time and he wasn't getting any results or having fun. He hired me to help him get results and was shocked when I told him to stop being so rigid about his tracking and start trying new things and having some fun. According to John "fitness is 80% mental so you need to mentally stimulate yourself. Vary your exercises, mix and match your routines. You need to keep fitness fun. You can't make it a game of how miserable you can make yourself you have to make it something you enjoy."
Don't Worry About Today, Control Is Just Around The Corner
We all have bad days when our eating habits are terrible, our workouts are low energy, and our attitude stinks John explains that "no matter where you are today that has no bearing on where you're going to be a week from now, a month from now, or a year from now. So even if you're having diffulty today don't worry about it. Just get control back and start back with good eating and exercise tomorrow." In other words it's o.k. to have a bad day because a good day is only a few hours away!
Keep It Moving & Focus On Burning Calories
So many people beat themselves up about what type of workouts to do, how many days of cardio, when to do cardio, and whether one type of exercise is better than another type of exercise. It's not that complicated! According to John "when it comes to fatloss, boil it down to the simplest terms, it's a mathematical event; calories in vs. calories out. If you burn more calories than you take in you will lose fat!" So go for a walk around your neighborhood, do a circuit workout, or just try a quick workout that focuses on 1 or 2 bodyparts for 10-15 minutes. The more often you move the faster you get results.
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