June 7, 2017
(Guest Post) Doing Body Transformations the Right Way
This article will lead you through the process of transforming your body by covering the essentials of physical state improvement, successful tracking of nutritional habits and the main principles of mindset required for a successful body transformation.
It will stress the importance of being reasonable and setting realistic goals in order to achieve good results with your body. It will also provide useful tips and tricks on how to achieve your dream physique easier and faster!
1. Evaluation of Your Current Physical State and Nutritional Habits
One of the easiest ways to evaluate your current physical condition is by simple visual examination.
We all know our best features as well as our faults so simply seeing what you want to change and visualising the final goal in your mind is a great start.
If you want to make a track record of what you have achieved, measure these body parts in order to have a number to compare to later (these body parts will show the weight loss instantly):
● Wrist (below wrist bone)
● Neck (below Apple)
● Widest part of your hips
● Widest part of forearm
● Narrowest part of your waist
Another way to be sure that you start on a good path is to book an appointment with a personal trainer, doctor or nutritionist. Professional opinion works great, especially if you tend to underrate yourself. Also, professional PTs have the ability to accurately measure your fitness level, body fat and other important indexes which might be very beneficial before starting your body transformation journey.
Evaluating your nutritional habits is very important as well – the easiest way to do this is by keeping a food diary. Write down everything you eat for a couple of weeks and you will be shocked around the unnecessary snacks fall into your daily routine! By seeing what is wrong, you will be able to easily eliminate the bad habits and strengthen the good ones.
2. The Importance of Goal Setting
If you don’t know what you want, how can you achieve it? As with any goals in life, you have to clearly define what you want in order to be able to get it. As a female personal trainer I advise my clients to set reasonable short term and long term goals.
Step by step, you will be able to see progress – one of the most satisfactory feelings is that of achieving your goals, down to the small ones. If your body transformation goals strictly relate to fat loss, please have in mind that your weekly maintainable fat loss goal should not exceed 700-900 g.
3. The Importance of the Right Mindset
The first step of achieving anything is believing in it. Constantly thinking about your goals will boost your motivation level and increase chances of succeeding. If you are good at visualizing, imagine yourself in a couple of months – how exactly will you look and feel after this period of time? Be realistic, don’t try to imagine looking like a particular TV star. On the contrary – try to become the best version of your own self.
4. Keeping Track of Your Progress
As with nutrition tracking, writing down your measurements each week will let you know if you are going to the right direction and if the progress is fast enough. If something seems not to be working and you cannot see visible results, always check the numbers – they will tell if the progress is happening.
Tracking will also help you identify the best training and activity schedule which works for you, so don’t hesitate and start your body transformation journal right away!
5. Forming the Right Habits
Every success story usually comes from a well developed habit. The success of body transformation highly depends on your new nutrition and fitness habits and how well you are able to adopt them.
Following the strategy of not rushing yourself into changing the lifestyle completely and taking things slowly will most probably lead you to success.
6. Avoiding the Most Common Pitfalls
It doesn’t really matter what your fitness goals are, the most important rule is not being too strict on yourself. Neither overtraining nor starving yourself will get you the right results. On the contrary, it may lead to exhaustion and loss of motivation.
Be kind to yourself, and act as if your body really is your temple. Find the right balance and create your own training schedule with the activities that make you happy. Eat healthy and do not exhaust yourself with diets, which are not effective and may harm your body.
Good Efforts Pay Off!
To conclude, our bodies respond well to our good efforts.
Having a reasonable training schedule and adopting healthy nutritional habits will transform your body in a blink of an eye and make you feel better than ever.
If you feel that you could benefit from an additional motivation source, have an experienced professional (fitness trainer, nutritionist or a doctor) next to you during your body transformation journey.
Don’t forget, that your mindset plays a key role in this process as well.
Good luck achieving your goals!
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BIO BOX
Justina Triasovaite is a certified female personal trainer and also runs justinatraining.com, a site with useful information for those who are interested in general fitness and body transformation. A committed health and fitness fanatic, Justina is very passionate about helping transform people's lives.
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