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The best movement is what you enjoy doing
There’s negativity about all types of movement in the media. Running’s bad for your joints, HIIT’s bad for your cortisol levels, weight training’s bad for injuries.
Unless you have injuries that prevent you moving in a certain way, any movement is beneficial for you, you don’t need someone to tell you what movement is healthy or unhealthy. The best movement for you is the one that keeps you consistent. Pick a style of movement you enjoy & that you will be able to continue for the foreseeable future.
Don’t compare
Society and media is always telling us to do increasingly more with the same amount of hours in the day: Wake up at 5am, have a full morning routine to meditate, exercise, prep food, hustle 12 hours a day, then get home and cook nutritious meals, be there for your family, but also take time off for you.
No-one has has it together 100 percent of the time, and just know that someone’s day does not have to look like yours. Most importantly, establish a routine for the long term that is sustainable and allows you enough rest.
Joining the 5am club is optional; some people are wired for early morning and some aren’t, it’s a genetically pre-determined chronotype. Sleep is the number one recovery and health-boosting medicine we have available to us. The shorter your sleep, the shorter your life.
Low intensity for long-term results
Not every workout has to be a sweaty, high-calorie burner in order to bring benefits. Plus, you need low-intensity to compliment medium and high intensity. If you only ever did high-intensity and never any lower intensity, you’d be setting yourself up for injuries, pain and lots of bodily tension, not to mention problems with back pain and suboptimal posture.
Personal trainers are not necessary
Unless you have a really specific performance goal, you do not need a personal trainer. Now that’s not to say that if you struggle with consistency and exercising regularly, you won’t benefit from having someone to keep you accountable, but a personal trainer does not have all magic powers to get you to your goals super fast.
If you’re trying to lose some body fat, hormonally you’re balanced — check with an endocrinologist if you’re not sure — and your stress levels are okay, you need frequent movement, time, patience, balanced macronutrients in your diet and a slight calorie deficit, definitely not a starvation diet.
Your body needs enough calories to function and to perform day to day activities, if you diet so low you dip into the calories your body needs to function, you’ll won’t lose fat because your body’s first priority is to survive over fat loss.