Ever Felt Like You’ve Fallen Off Track?

Losing your rhythm with training & exercise, can and will happen 🤷🏼‍♀️

That inevitable funk you feel? Where things feel like you’re dragging your feet through mud, you can’t focus and you’d rather be anywhere but in the gym. Maybe you’ve had some time off training or other things have taken priority.

Life has been life-ing; children, career, friends, social life, holiday, work travel, stress, poor sleep.

= Overwhelmed.

Or on the flip, you’ve been training a lot and feel a bit burnt out? You’ve been giving so much to the training and fitness side of your life, that everything else has taken a back seat. Which has equally left you feeling burnt out.

= Overwhelmed.

Life happens. Both scenarios have left you feeling like you’ve lost your groove, can’t see a light at the end of the tunnel or like it won’t improve. It can be super easy to feel like scrapping everything or throwing in the towel.

Because of that old mindset of being all or nothing. If you’re not all in, 100% committed and flying high 24/7 what’s the point?

I’m here to share 6 tips that have helped me (and my clients) when they’ve felt like this! Here’s 6️⃣ things I’d try instead.

1. I try to take decision fatigue away.

   Avoid giving your brain chance to psych you out! When you feel unsure/nervous it can be easy to find any excuse to avoid the thing that’s scaring you!

2. I focus on MOVING

   I find things I enjoy and MAKE time to fit them into my week. Once momentum builds, you’ll find it becoming a little easier and more manageable again. Try not to look at stuff you’ve managed in the past. Because it’s super easy to fall into a self-comparison trap and beat yourself up.

3. I find things that make me feel good and DOUBLE DOWN.

   Music, podcasts, environment, community, time of day, a cute outfit, training partner etc. If you know what makes you feel better when training, do it. You’ll be helping to release dopamine, the feel good hormone! (especially if we have🌶️ 🧠)

4. I remind myself how much I enjoy training and the positive impacts it has.

   Then I ask myself, what if I never got to feel that again? What if I constantly yo-yo’ed between all in or not at all? What if I had to repeat this feeling of dread of restarting?

   I try to make a mental note so I don’t have such a long break again!

5. Make the time. Don’t rely on finding time.

   Allocate time, write it down and commit. It doesn’t matter how long or when you do it. Studies show, having a massive to do list and saying you’ll “find time” for it, means you’re more likely to feel overwhelmed and not do something. If you make it part of your week and actually put it in your calendar, you’re more likely to commit to that arrangement.

6. I’d lower expectations.

   That’s not to say bin off self-standards. But try to think about what you CAN be doing, rather than what you think you SHOULD be doing. If you’re overly ambitious at the start, you’re creating more of a hurdle. Small, manageable, steady, sustainable.

Remind yourself, that motivation is a poor form of motivation (ironically). That you’ll naturally fluctuate between feeling great with training and then feeling meh. You’re not failing. You’re not undisciplined. You’re not letting yourself down.

You’re just naturally moving along the very unlinear line that is “your health journey”.

We all have slower parts, or bits where we dip a bit. But the most important thing, is how you react and move forward from that!