Unless you are a professional body builder, or competing at a very high level, I ask what level of compliance is necessary to get great fitness results. As a Master Trainer, I ask my clients to work and diet with 90% compliance.
What is 90% compliance? To me it is training on your scheduled days, putting the work in, and following your diet 90% of the time. Why only 90% and not 100%? The answer to this is because I am a realist. I live in the real world. I have had real jobs including being a police officer and over time realized that for most people this is about all you can really expect. Once again, those in competition have to reach further as essentially it is your job, but I am focusing here on the average but motivated person that wants fitness success or wants to live a healthy lifestyle.
So, boiling this down it would mean training on your scheduled routine 9 out of ten scheduled times. If you miss one for whatever reason, just pick back up where you were on the next day and move on. As for diet, stick to it 90% of the time. As a police officer I would occasionally find myself missing a scheduled meal because a call ran late or for whatever reason, but I always carried protein bars and shakes in my duty bag so I could stay on track as best I could. Those of us working “regular jobs,” whatever that means all share these same problems.
In fact, when I make diet recommendations for clients I actually build this concept into their program. To stay on track, you must still stay sane and enjoy life! I tell my clients if you and your spouse or friends or whatever go out for pizza or wings every Friday then DO IT! Just stay on track the rest of the time. If you have a wedding coming up on Saturday where you KNOW you will be eating poorly and having wedding cake then skip the pizza on Friday and use the wedding as your cheat meal. Plan your meals around what life has coming up for you.To get consistent results you do NOT have to be perfect.
We all fail or something gets in the way, but if you go into training with the mentality that a minor mistake is just a hiccup in your progress and you just move on from there, then you WILL be a success. When it comes to training and diet, simply do the best you can. If you go into your program with this mindset, you WILL have great results.
Scott
Scott is a Master Fitness Trainer at Garan Fitness Consulting located in Kent, Ohio. Scott can also be reached at 330-554-1345.
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