We are always on the lookout for people who know how to live right, whether they are in a great relationship with someone else or have a great relationship with themselves.
Loving yourself first is the real key any good relationship, so we spoke with fitness guru and owner of New York Underground Fitness, Eric Slayton, to find out the key to success when you hit the gym each day.
* Garbage In. Garbage Out… This applies not only to the brain, but also to the body. Good nutrition is just as important as the exercise, if not more so, to achieve results.
* No pain, no gain is a lie. Delayed onset muscle soreness is good, but to feel physical pain in a joint or muscle while actually working it is a sure sign to stop immediately.
* Begin with the end in mind. Know what you want to achieve during your next workout. Know what you want to achieve from a years worth of workouts. Know what you want out of life and how training is going to help you achieve it.
* Life happens, quit whining and deal with it. Your carefully planned workout schedule or diet is going to get knocked off track sometimes due to unforeseen circumstances. It’s not the end of the world. Do what you have to do and move on. This is an area that I have the most trouble with since I am real anal about schedules.
* Keep things in perspective. When you feel life has dealt you an unfair blow, possibly an injury that prevents you from training, just remember that there is always someone in worse condition than you. As long as you wake up in the morning, you still have options.
* If you continue to do what you’ve always done - you’ll continue to get what you’ve always gotten.
* You can’t continue to change your physique without consistently changing your routine and quit eating junk. You must change your routine every so often or the body adapts to the given stress and will quit responding. You must also give into the fact that you are going to have to change your eating habits in order to get your body where you want it.
* We are what we repeatedly do. Consistency makes habits (good or bad). Habits make results (good or bad). Exercise consistently, eat clean consistently, habits they become, desired results will follow.
