TRIGGER EXERCISES TO SHOOT DOWN POOR MOTIVATION!

I’d love to sit here and say to you that I train 6 days per week without fail, but I can’t. I’d love to claim that I’ve never had more than a week off from training, but I can’t. The truth is, at times, I, probably just like you struggle to exercise.

A lot of the time I’m like your average toilet tissue – on a roll. And by that, I mean my training is consistent, my eating is pretty good and my sleeping patterns decent. But sometimes, well, life just gets in the way and I fall off the exercise wagon, so to speak. Whether it’s family commitments, work commitments or whatever, sometimes I just simply cannot find the time or (whisper it quietly) the motivation to exercise. Now, this may come as a surprise to many of you that a person making his living out of the fitness industry should admit to struggling with motivation, but it’s the truth (unlike most of the perfect lives you see portrayed on social media).

Unfortunately for me and for many others, this downturn in exercise almost certainly goes hand-in-hand with an upturn in eating rubbish too. It’s as if training keeps my nutrition in check!

So, what do I do when my levels of motivation are lower than the compassion in Katie Hopkins heart? I make like your average American trying to resolve a relatively minor dispute and reach for my trigger. But not the trigger of a gun, no, the trigger that will get me off my backside and back on the exercise super highway!

For me, this is a nice long, slow, easy paced run (that’s probably another surprise to many of you, that as a personal trainer, my go to exercise isn’t HIIT!). For others, your trigger exercise may be lifting weights or doing some yoga. It might be a Pilates class or may be even taking part in competitive sports. Regardless of whatever it is, the most important thing is to find YOUR trigger activity – the exercise that will get you back on track again!.

It doesn’t even have to be something you would normally do in your regular training. Believe me I rarely go for long steady runs when I'm ‘bang on’ with my training, but for whatever reason once I’ve had a little time away from exercise I know that an easy run will kick-start my training and set me up for future sessions!  

In conclusion…

Motivation isn’t permanent like parent’s love. It’s more like a holiday romance – fleeting and uncertain. You must enjoy the highs whilst finding ways of dealing with the lows. And for me finding YOUR trigger activity is one good way of combatting the lows when it comes to motivation and exercise!

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