Traveling, even impromptu trips, and sticking to your fitness and nutrition plan is not difficult. It just takes planning.  While that planning may take you a little extra effort, it’s worth it in the long-run to ensure you don’t experience a big set-back as you progress toward your health and fitness goals. Consider these helpful tips when preparing for travel, whether by land, air or water.

When you are considering a lifestyle change, whether it be improved nutrition, better health, weight loss, building muscle… one can argue that consistency is of utmost importance in realizing your goals.  In fact, I will be bold enough to say that without consistency, you can’t build a lasting habit.  Without improved habits to support your goals… you simply will not realize your goals.

Working toward your health and fitness goals is more than just exercising and eating well. Recognizing how critical rest is to your fitness regimen will help you live a more balanced and healthier lifestyle, allowing for optimal performance and ultimately allowing you to reach your goals.

I recently stumbled upon a really cool device for lower body exercises. It is called Monkey Feet, created by Animal House Fitness.

Writing down your goals is an important first step in really solidifying what it is you truly want, and why. But, what do you do with your goals once you’ve got them written down? You need to keep them visual! Seeing your goals on a daily basis will help you support your discipline, drive and determination. This is where visual trackers, goal boards, or vision boards become useful!

Whether it’s tackling a New Year’s resolution or a goal for self-growth in the coming new year, I want to see you succeed, see you happy. Having goals for self-growth is always exciting. Envisioning an improved version of you, whatever that may look like for you, is exciting. So let’s make sure you are successful…and ready to make a change.

You absolutely can enjoy all the holiday happenings without completely derailing your progress toward your goals…it’s called balance. In order to be successful the first thing you need is a plan. From there, it’s ensuring you are consistent with your nutrition, water intake, exercise and daily activity, making sure you practice good habits, and focus on a healthy mindset, supportive of your goals and overall health.

For many people, there is nothing like de-stressing from the workday with a glass or two of wine or attending a happy hour with friends. However, when this becomes a regular habit, it can inhibit your goals toward weight loss and muscle growth.

Let’s be honest, despite the countless ads out there for magic pills and diet programs, there is no “quick fix” for changing your body composition. However, there are things you can do to increase your daily calorie expenditure, increase your energy and improve your health in order to reach your goals. All it takes is MOVING more. It’s called the N.E.A.T. concept. Read on to learn about how you can incorporate this easy concept into your daily routines to burn more calories…and potentially reach your goals faster.

In my last two blog posts, I touched on consistency, and how committing to action and process is key to reaching your goals. One of the actions you can take to remain consistent in your effort to improve your health, lose weight, or build muscle, is by incorporating meal prepping into your weekly routine.

Whether it be losing weight, or gaining muscle, “consistency is key”, as they say. With any goal you set out to achieve, you will not reach it, or maintain it, without consistent action. In this blog post, I discuss the importance of developing habits and routines to help maintain consistency in order to reach your goals.

Naturally with it being January, I thought it a good time to address goals. This post is a bit of a lengthy one…but I really wanted to be sure I gave you the best start to creating your goals!