Get hooked on sport in the summer

We must take care of our health and shape regardless of the season. In spite of the fact that I try to change your approach to a healthy lifestyle all the time, your motivation is usually the strongest before summer holidays and as a result most people achieve their goals at this time.

Great! I hope that people who have been training with my app could feel how strongly I supported every single one of them.

How about those who failed? Now they’re probably nervously counting the days before vacation. Do me favour and take it easy!

I read messages from you every day that start with “Ann, please help!… I must lose weight because I’m going on holidays/ because it’s summertime/ because it’s the bikini season.”

I always repeat it over and over again: changing your build is a process. You can only achieve it faster when you combine exercise with a balanced diet and do it wisely. A training plan and a diet are a must. The worst thing is when you have no plan. But you already know that.

While I was writing this post I thought that SUMMER IS A VERY GOOD TIME to take up physical activity. It is a really FAVOURABLE situation and you can treat is as an opportunity to start something totally from scratch, against any deadlines, rush, or pressure that you HAVE TO do something.

Maybe now, when you think “it’s too late”, is the best time TO GET HOOKED, and I wish you that with all my sporty heart!

Check out what the benefits of training are and… get down to work! I’ll see you on the mat 😉

While creating my app, I was very well aware of the excuses that stop people from training for a longer time. Correct me if I’m wrong:

• lack of time and money,
• lack of proper sports clothes,
• no gym in the neighbourhood,
• being ashamed to work out in public places,
• lack of experience in using the gym equipment,
• not knowing how to work out and what exercises would suit your abilities.

This is why my Diet & Training by Ann app was made

When you train with my app, you only use the weight of your own body.

• you don’t need any gym pass,
• you can do the workout anywhere and at any time,
• you adjust it to suit your own needs,
• you don’t need any professional equipment or machines,
• a short workout is enough and the effect is guaranteed.

Suddenly all the previous excuses vanish into thin air 😉

Now let me show you what benefits you get from starting the workout (with me)

Apart from the fact that your self-esteem will increase at last, regular training will help you lose weight efficiently and build muscles. It will also benefit your heart, blood circulation and nervous system. You will improve hormone production, metabolism, sleep quality, and increase energy levels.

What you actually need

Two square metres of floor, a bottle of water and something to lie on. That is the honest list. A mat makes floor work less unpleasant and a folded towel does the same job for the first fortnight, which is long enough to find out whether you are going to keep this up. Trainers matter only if you are jumping; barefoot is fine for everything else on a carpet.

None of that stops you buying more later, and there is a separate post on what is worth buying for a home gym once you know what you actually use. The order is the point: train first, buy second. Kit bought in advance is the most expensive form of procrastination there is.

The first two weeks

Pick the time before you pick the workout. A session that happens at the same hour three days a week beats a better session that has to be scheduled from scratch every time, and the reason is not motivation but decision-making: the fewer decisions between waking up and starting, the more sessions actually happen.

Then keep the first sessions shorter than you can manage. Ten or fifteen minutes, three times in the week, is a complete beginning. What you are training in the first fortnight is the habit rather than the muscle, and the quickest way to lose the habit is a session so hard that the next one needs courage.

You will miss a day. When it happens, do the next one as planned rather than doubling it, because a missed session costs nothing and a punishing catch-up session costs you the week. More on getting past that point in the post on how not to lose motivation, and on the reasons to keep going in six reasons to be active every day.

Start slowly and easy (at the beginning choose the START programme). Next, increase your level of difficulty and select a harder set of exercises (e.g. Tx5) or choose more reps.

I know that reading one post is not enough to convince a sceptic to start any physical activity that’s why I quit encouraging 😉

I believe that after you’ve read this post, you will have a moment of reflection and will realise that it’s worth taking care of yourself at your own pace.

You deserve to be happy like no one else. Remember that!

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