How To: Maintain Your Workout Drive

So autumn has official began and sunny days on the beach are replaced by sitting in you room doing homework. It is easy to become lazy about maintaining your workout drive because of the frigid cool days, but here is a few ways to avoid that.

Pencil your Workout in

Put your workout time on your schedule. Planning your workout alongside of your other responsibilities makes you less likely to skip out on it. I have learned in my past fitness class to maintain your fitness gains you need to have a workout at least 3-4 times a week. This workout should consist of a cardio and strength training.

Mix it up

Mixing up your workout can also help maintain your workout. Enrolling in a fitness class can give you some variety and help hold your interest. Instead of getting bored with your current fitness plan you can take a class such as Zumba which is a cardio workout with Latin dance flair. So get off the treadmill and try something new.

Double Cast Your Workout

You can get a good workout but changing up your regular schedule. Make time to take the stairs or walk to class. You are being efficient and getting a workout. You can even double your workout with watching television. Here is how to do it. When you favorite show goes on commercial break do a cardio activity such as running in place, high knee marching, butt kickers, or whatever you can think of. Change the exercise with every commercial. When the show return do a cool down stretch. If you are adventurous, when the show returns you can use a resistance  band or yoga ball to do some strength training. By the time the show is over you have finished a 30-45 minute work out.

A Little Work and a Little Play

Your trying to maintain your good eating but you are dying for chocolate ice cream or if you are like me you would kill for French Fries.  This is the time where you have to realize that good nutrition is not characterized but eating like a rabbit for the rest of your life. You have to find balance. Many nutrition specialist have the 80-20 rule. You follow a good diet 80% of the time and treat yourself the other 20%. Usually when people deprive themselves they binge instead. I like to follow a good diet all week and on Friday and Saturday step out the box a little.