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Hey,
Coach Matt Miers from Team Nerd Fitness here!
While Steve writes his newsletter on Monday with stories to help you level your life at all, I was looking for more specific health and fitness guidelines.
I worked this fitness thing almost as long as Steve wrote his newsletter.
(In fact, I sent Steve back in 2010. years and since then we are friends – and now associates 8 years!)
I have had a lot of people coaching for 15 years. I had a seat in the front of what actually helps people hold their fitness goals – even when life is not messy (always working).
Here are 3 lessons I learned on travel lessons, our coaches use every day to help people with busy lives, great goals and brains that do not always want to cooperate.
Let’s settle!
🧠 Lesson 1: There is no “normal”.
Tell me if this sounds familiar …
“I just need life to calm down a bit … and then I’ll go back to the track.”
Yes. That version of “normal”? It’s a myth.
Life doesn’t settle down. That change.
Whether it’s a hard week at work, yours gets sick, traveling, take care of family member or just trying to keep your head above the plumbing life never calm down.
So we plan a plan that provides for those challenges, not something that attacks it.
At the Nerd fitness refer to this Dialing mode.
- Alternative training You can do in 15 minutes at home when you are accentuated, tired and short time
- Simple nutritional habits that you can return to Stip (ie Eat protein with each meal)
- List of meals you can grab in what suits your goals and keep you on the way
Having more ways to stay on the road, you still build a momentum even when life is chaotic.
No normal. And that is expected!
🔎 Lesson 2: Enlarge, reduce
Have you ever thought about yourself,
“I want to get in shape, but I just had so far.”
Or,
“I used to be in great shape, but now everything just feels tough. “
These are completely normal thoughts to have! (🙋♂ I know I have them!)
However, what I have noticed during the time it was that these thoughts often drain people energy to persist and continue on.
So what is the nerd for that?
There comes from our favorite tools: Enlarge, reduce.
Zoom: What should I do today?
Zoom (Every couple of weeks): Did I go in the right direction?
Zooming helps you to focus laser on your daily actions and avoid endless spiral “I’m not there yet.”
Instead, you ask:
✅ Did I work my training today?
✅ Did I get protein and vegetables with every meal? Etc.
Then, every 1-4 weeks, deviate and check larger image:
What’s good doing?
What was the challenge?
What should or achieve or achieve a goal to adapt?
This rhythm-everyday focus with a periodic, large inspection of images is how real change happens.
⚖ Lesson 3: Do it meaningful and feasible.
How do you know if the right strategy is for you?
Find the right balance between challenging and feasibility.
Too easy? Will not move the needle.
It’s too hard? You won’t do it enough enough to make a difference.
For each person, the real level of challenges is different.
Maybe they follow the macrons every day and doing 3k / week.
It may go for a daily walk and priority fruits and vegetables in every meal.
Maybe we eat umn and slowly and creates a sleep routine to make a better dream.
There is no “correct” or “wrong” here. The correct level of challenges will change for you over time.
Don’t be afraid to experiment and adjust until you find that sweet place: Challenging enough to feel meaningful, but sufficiently possible to remain consistent.
These 3 lessons are the basic part of what we use within a nerd-fitness coach – and helped thousands of people in great shape, even when life throws curves colored.
Which one highlights you most?
Send me an e-mail on “(e-mail protected)“- I’d love to hear what you are doing.
I will send useful advice like this one this second week or so, so you are free to send questions that could have!
– coach Matt
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