6 Reasons Why You Won’t Be Bikini Ready This Year?

Every year there are people, who strive to get in shape , to feel and look there best. But, they don’t end up making it happen.

I want to share with you 6 pitfalls that if you avoid them, you ‘ll get the body you want.

1. Perfection – You think you have to be perfect to get results. When you’re not, your emotional reaction to a bad weekend or meal will cause you to quit or throw it out the window for weeks at time.

Solution – Strive to be better a little each week. You don’t need to be perfect, you need to be better than you were last week.

2. You will do too much cardio and not enough weights. You may lose weight, but because if you lost muscle due to lack of strength training, you won’t look the way you expected.

Solution – lift 2-4 x a week.

3. You won’t mix up your cardio, you’ll do too much high intensity or not enough. Too much high intensity will lead to overuse of muscles and  injuries and insufficient recovery. Releasing more stress hormones as well as limiting your results.

Solution – Mix up low intensity cardio like walking, sled pushes, light jogging, hiking with intense version like sprints, circuit and interval training.

4. You will work on everything except for sleep. You may improve your nutrition and start working out. But, your lack of poor quality sleep will get the best of you.

Solution – Get 7-9 hours of sleep or gradually improve it by doing relaxing things before bed.

5. You’ll focus on calories first, while you ignore the importance of quality nutrients like protein, fats, vitamins and H20 can have on your body.

Solution – Start eating healthy doses of nutrients, then worry about portion sizes. Here is a quick guide line:

Eat 3-4 servings of protein a day

Eat 3-4  servings of veggies per day

Include healthy fat with each meal

Note – I’m not saying calories aren’t important. Calories are very import to lose fat; but like anything, too much reduction to fats is big mistake.

Drink 1-2 cups with most meals

Eat healthy starchy carbs after your workout

6.  Your struggles, failures and setbacks destroy you. Instead of teaching you lessons, you will focus more on how much it sucks to struggle and how hard it can be. This will be your biggest setback

Solution – Start seeing struggles and failures as a lesson. What is it teaching you and how can you do it better next time? What could you do differently? How could you be more prepared to put yourself in a better position to succeed?

Try to do this most days, Write in a note book:

What happened to you?

Why is it positive?

What is the lesson you learned?

How can you apply it to your nutrition and workouts?

There are the  6 reasons why most will fail.  If you can overcome them you’ll be on your way.