New Year - Fit Year

The holidays are almost over, and for many, this is a great time to start fresh and being to adopt healthier habits to change their lives.

Starting a new fitness journey in January is popular because it allows everyone to start breaking down calories that were gained from the carb-heavy holidays where most of us indulge in big meals after stressful moments of shopping and preparing for family visits.

New Year’s resolutions are also created for mindful goal setting, pairing up with workout friends to get healthy with, and preparing the mind for the journey ahead.

Most of the people starting New Year’s resolutions are aware that they need and want to make a change.

However, getting started and knowing what to do requires a little bit more knowledge in order to be efficient and see results.

Here are several ways you can make the most of your resolution to change your life and get fit this coming year!

How to Dress Properly for Your New Fitness Journey

To most people, finding something to wear before starting a workout is not much of a priority, however, the clothes that you wear can, in fact, impact your workout.

Not only can they alter the way you feel physically as you work out, but it can get so bad that you begin dreading the workouts.

You’ll need to do a head to toe evaluation of your gear to see what needs updating.

If you haven’t ever given it any thought, a great place to start with workout attire is the setting in which you plan on performing your exercise regimen.

For the most part, if you plan on working out indoors at either a house or gym setting, you can get away with almost anything from sweats to tank tops because the air conditioning will allow for optimal temperatures.

The only aspect you really need to consider when indoor training is to know if you’re planning for an intense, high cardiac output workout like HIIT training or something slower paced.

HIIT workouts, or High Intensity Interval Training, can be very taxing on the human body, raising your blood pressure, heart-rate, and body temperature, which can be overbearing to some.

Dressing too warm for these workouts can cause someone new to pass out or feel very light headed, so be sure to bring a layer of clothing that you can remove if you begin to feel too hot at any point.

A similar method of wearing layers can be beneficial to anyone who likes to train outdoors at parks, participate in boot camps or go on long runs.

Depending on the exercises, the same situation of increasing body temperature can happen outdoors, which makes wearing layers more beneficial when it comes to keeping body temperature lower.

Shoes are also important - even as important as the bed you sleep on, which means making sure you have the right ones for your body are essential for your joint health.

Wearing the wrong type of shoes for long periods of time can cause damage to your ankle complex, which can also affect the rest of the joints in your body through its kinetic chain, affecting posture.

There are specialty shoe stores that can run foot assessments in which they assess how you walk and refer you to the best possible shoe and insole that can help correct your footstep to better improve your walking, posture, and the way you feel.

In addition to shoes and layering, you also have to consider things such as sports bras, sweat bands, hats to protect yourself from the sun if you’re working out outdoors, and more.

There are many technological gadgets you can get for your attire, too. From heart rate monitors that you wear to simple step counters that assist you in setting and achieving cardio goals, there’s something for everyone.

Workout Efficiency and Weight Loss

Hardly anyone ever enjoys going on a restricted diet or adopting healthier eating habits while starting an exercise regimen at the same time.

Making your time more efficient will not only help you see results faster, but could also prevent plateaus and save a lot of time and stress as well.

The first step in your New Year’s resolution plan should be to find a way to assess yourself regularly.

This could be done through progress photos, biometric scales, or any method of training body fat progress such as tape measurers or calipers.

If you aren’t assessing your progress you’re guessing, and guessing could waste your time, diminish results, and make you lose track of accountability.

After you find a way that you prefer to measure your progress, make a commitment to yourself to check weekly on your progress.

A common term used in gyms among staff is “Weigh-in Wednesday” for example, where every Wednesday at the same time you check your progress.

Starting off, you will most likely see changes in your measurements and the way you feel, just based off picking up healthier nutrition habits, which makes nutrition goals a great place to start.

Slowly, you may notice the progress begin to slow down, which means it’s time to change something in your current plan, such as adding in cardio a few times a week so that your body now has to adapt to a new method, resulting in more progress being shown on the scale.

If cardio and nutrition aren’t cutting it for the type of results you’d like to see, try adding two strength workouts into your week to help build more muscle fiber and speed up your metabolism.

Be sure to track how much cardio and strength training you’re doing consistently, then be patient for a couple of weeks to see how your assessments result from your changed program.

Eventually, everyone who eats better, and does a little cardio with strength will begin to notice their progress begins to slow down.

This is where you can begin to make minor changes for even more results, forcing the body to adapt in new ways to a healthier lifestyle.

Some changes could be investing in a heart-rate monitor and knowing at what heart-rate your body burns fat the best when doing cardio.

Adding in better sleep for recovery and stress or applying a yoga workout once a week can also go a long way in seeing different results on the scale.

Regardless of which habit you’d like to tweak to overcome slow results, it’s important to track your progress continually so that you know when and how you need to change what you’re currently doing to continue seeing progress.

The human body tries its hardest to maintain homeostasis so that your body can regularly maintain its current situation, which is why it’s so important to track when your body is no longer seeing changes from your program, and find that next aspect to change.

The holiday season at the end of the year is the worst season to gain weight. You feel lethargic from a carb heavy time of year, and this a better reason to start fresh in January and get back to being the you that feels and looks your best.

There will be many people stating that this is the year they get fit once and for all. But the reality is, most of them will quit. What makes you any different?

The fact that you’re preparing for your journey instantly makes you more credible because you’re taking this seriously.

Continue moving on that path and educating yourself about how to gain momentum, rather than lose it as you work toward your goals.

Set yourself up ahead of time for success and plan out any roadblocks that might get in the way so that when the time does come, you won’t be defeated, but instead rise up to continue making the body slowly adapt to a healthier lifestyle.

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