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How To Make Your Workouts Consistent?

By Coach Sharm and Team


I hear many stories of those who stopped working out because their exercise sessions were very tough, or it’s too difficult to continue due to other reasons.

So, how can we make our workouts enjoyable, yet beneficial – and most importantly – our ability to make it sustainable over many many years to come 🙂?

(1) REGRESS

Go ahead and change the exercises to make them easier for you. Make the exercises work for you!

How?

Make the exercises less complex/difficult
Do shorter range of motion
Do less intense

As you get fitter, start progressing gently (make it more challenging). Otherwise, feel free to regress. Less is better than none.

(2) SHORTEN

For time-based workouts, make it about 30% shorter. Suppose an exercise set lasts one minute. You should only do 40 seconds of it.

For repetition-based sets, do about 20% less. In this example, if you do 10 reps of an exercise set, you should only do about 8 reps of that exercise.

Have this lower goal – so you can attain many of these mini-success instead of stressing over very difficult goals.

More success = better for consistency. 

What else can you do? Rest longer.

Make your main goal: REST. Rest when you’re tired. It is good for beginners because it lets them take a break as long as they need to and it can help people work harder than they could without taking a break.

Why is this method superior?

With this method, you are in charge of your workout and set your own goals for yourself. You will become more aware of your body and more interested in the programmes. The “burst then rest strategy” lets you change your work and rest ratios to fit your own needs.

Based on the 1) regress and 2) shorten methods above, do share with me your thoughts 🙂


Committed to your health and success,

Coach Sharm, MSc

sharm@bodythrive.co

WA: +65 9109 0995

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