5 steps to get “Fit” (7min read)

5 steps to get “Fit”

I have this conversation on a daily basis.

Me “So what are your goals?”

Client “I want to be fitter”

Me “Awesome, what do you mean by fitter?”

Client “I’m not sure, I just want to feel like I can do more and not get puffed out”

Me “That’s great, but what does that look like? Do you mean when you run, when you ride, when you’re doing padwork?”

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There are a tonne of people out there that wish to be “Fit” & “Healthy” & “Strong” & “Lean”.

Well, pretty much everyone wants at least one of those things.

The challenge is, that none of them are achievable goals.

I don’t mean you can’t become “Healthy”.

What I mean is:

What is healthy?

What is it to you? What does health in your world look like?

The same with fitness.

Because I might classify “fit” as someone who can run a marathon in under 3 hours. Or a world champion CrossFitter or a Professional fighter. But those things might not have any relevance to you, your life or your perception of “fit”.

And because of this, so many people just float around the fitness industry with not much clue, not much growth and end up with not much “fitness”.

So here are 5 things that you can do to make sure that you get “FITTER”.

Have a goal.

If you just follow the last 4 of these tips, you’ll get fitter. That I can promise you.

What I can’t promise you is where that fitness will reach it’s limits, your risk of injury, or whether or not you’ll achieve a level of fitness that you actually want.

Not until you define it in some way.

If you’re starting out it doesn’t have to be a big goal. It doesn’t have to be about running a marathon. It could be as simple as running for 5kms without stopping.

If you can not do that now, and you start training and in 6 or 12 weeks time, you achieve it. Then you have become “Fitter” and that fitness is now in line with how you want to grow.

Fitness is so broad and varied, that there is no 1 way to define it. It’s an impossible task.

So when you say I want to be “fitter” you’re asking yourself to complete something that is impossible.

The simplest way to change your goals from impossible to possible, is to set something that works within your vision of the “fitness” that you would like to achieve.

Big or small, it doesn’t matter.

Start with a specific goal and as you achieve your goals, you’ll be able to direct your training in the way that you want.

Which will make the journey 100x simpler.

If you’re struggling to find a goal, take a look at our Level UP fitness events. They’re designed to give people of all levels a chance to reach a new level of fitness.

Get educated

Once you have your goal or goals. It’s time to get educated.

We live in a world where literally every piece of information is available to us.

That means, you have access to the best minds and knowledge on any topic you want to learn about.

In this case, you have the ability to research and implement the best way to achieve your goal.

Most people just say “i’m going to join the gym”.

They haven’t got a specific goal in mind. They haven’t got any clue on how to achieve this “fitness” thing and they expect it all to just fall into place.

It won’t work.

If you don’t have the means, the want or the time to do some of your own research, find a great coach or mentor and listen and learn from them.

Be a great student and you’ll get there. Without a doubt.

Work hard

Fitness is hard work.

That’s the plain and simple truth.

So many people want to lift light weights, get on a treadmil and go for a brisk walk and expect the body fat to drop, the muscles to pop and the fitness to soar.

That’s never going to happen.

If that’s what you think, you’re just going to be disappointed.

You need to sweat, you need to burn, you need to hurt, you need to create a stimulus on your body that it’s not used to. Otherwise it won’t change.

Fitness is just your bodies way of adapting to a new environment or requirement to live.

So if your body doesn’t feel the need to change to handle the training you’re doing, then your body will not change.

Be prepared to put in the work, be prepared to deal with the muscle burn, be prepared to become a sweaty mess and be prepared to EARN YOUR REWARD.

Be consistent

This isn’t a rule for fitness, it’s a rule for life.

If you’re not consistent, you won’t achieve anything.

When it comes to fitness, strength, etc. Your body needs that hard work stimulus on a regular basis for it to adapt.

It needs to think that this is now the world that it lives in and if it doesn’t change, it won’t survive.

Especially if you want to reap the long term health benefits of being fit.

You need to do it regularly (3+ times per week), and you need to do it ongoing.

If your goals change or you achieve them and want to make them bigger, then you just change the way you train.

But you always stay consistent.

Set another goal

This is how you create a long term, fitness based lifestyle.

Keep setting yourself goals. Keep moving forward.

Once you reach the first goal you set, work on a new one.

Some will be MASSIVE, other will be tiny.

It could even be to stay consistent during a hard time in your life for mental clarity.

The size or type of the goal is not important.

What is important is that you have something that you’re moving towards.

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Denee Lalouette2019-10-03T12:10:45+10:00

About the Author: Denee Lalouette

A UFT PLAYground is a place that people of all shapes, sizes and ages learn to develop their movement abilities through an infinite learning and development program. UFT PLAYgrounds have been created to re-inspire our natural ability to move, create, adapt, re-act, connect, have fun and of course PLAY. PLAYgrounds have been developed to allow people to feel and explore their own abilities by utilising a multidimensional, infinite, creative and PLAYful approach to training. We live in a world full of specialists and obsessions. At an ever increasing rate, people are specialising more and more, in their jobs, in their businesses, in their sport and in their training. The result, is a backward step in human evolution. By specialising, we limit ourselves to thinking that 1 particular way of doing things is the right way, or the only way. We promote creativity, not only in movement and training methodologies but in thinking in general. A UFT PLAYground is created to provide the general public with an opportunity to PLAY across multiple styles of training and moving, to be able to progress in the training methods that they become passionate about or that excites them and to be a part of a community that promotes more than just fitness. The “fitness” industry above all others has brought about a need to specialise in order to achieve anything, and majority of what we do for “fitness” is for an aesthetically pleasing reason. We understand that aesthetics are nice and we too love to look and feel good. However a UFT PLAYground is developed to allow people to move better than ever before across a broad range of training methodologies and ideas. Aesthetics, therefore are a result not a goal of that system. We know that “If you train to look good, you will not always enjoy what you do, but if you PLAY a lot, and do the things that you love, you will ending up looking good”. Aesthetics should be a result not a goal. For years now, we have recognised that the best movers on the planet are children. They are flexible, mobile & fit, they have better relative strength than a typical adult (and even most adolescents), they are the best creators and innovators, they learn faster, the adapt better, they interact better with other people, they are more connected to nature and most importantly, they PLAY more than anyone else. As adults, we tend to believe that because we are taller and more experienced in “life”, we are better, and then we get to an age that says we are “too old to PLAY”. As we grow taller (and in a lot of cases rounder), we experience things that inhibit our ability to move, think and not think. We allow our experiences to limit our abilities as humans, whether it be a physical injury, a story that we heard or a youtube video that we watched. We also allow our emotions to control our behaviour because of our past experiences. Maybe it was the feeling of humiliation when we tried something new, regret when we failed or heart break when it was taken away from us. Because of this, we allow our experiences to control our future instead of learning from them and creating our own . This is what UFT PLAYground’s are built on. The understanding that we as humans need to go back to the way things were before our negative experiences took over our subconscious mind and body. A UFT PLAYground gives people the ability to re-learn what they have lost, as well as develop new sets of skills that will allow them to follow any particular passion that they uncover in PLAYtime. When we PLAY, we are simply, exploring. Through exploring we become curious and through curiosity we become obsessed or passionate about a particular thing. This is why in a PLAYground we allow people to PLAY across a broad range of training systems (minimum of 3), Through this system they are able to identify 1, their current limitations and be educated on how to overcome them, and 2, identify their passions and learn to develop, grow and excel in them. UFT PLAYgrounds are also a development centre for up and coming entrepreneurs in the fitness industry. Each PLAYground founder will have been trained and will be continuously trained in UFT’s Trainer Success System. This system allows personal trainers, coaches, teachers, instructors, etc. to continue to develop in their fields of specialty (as they play they will find it) and in the philosophy of PLAYtime. They will also be trained in the business systems of UFT in order to have their own successful and profitable business. See UFT Trainer Success System for more details.