How to get to your goal – Step One
The first step to achieving your goal is to get a general overview of the three pillars I mentioned earlier in a blog post. To recap, the three pillars are Food, Exercise, and Sleep. This post will be dedicated to briefly explain all three pillars and how they are all connected with each other, and how consistency is key in achieving your goals. In later posts, I will get into more detail about all three pillars and explain more. But it is important to start really broad and dig in the subject only later on to make sure you keep a good overview of everything.
The first pillar is food:
Why start with food, and not exercise, you might ask. Well, believe it or not, but the food is just as important to get to your goal as exercising. I will not go into detail now with what is healthy and what is not healthy. But what I will say right from the beginning is that consistency in food is the most important thing. As long as you have a healthy eating schedule in general. You will be healthy. Cheat days do no harm when they only occur a few times. It is all about consistency. I will post my eating schedule in another post to give you an indication of what my food schedule is and how it changed over time to adjust my food scheme to my fitness schedule and goal.
The second pillar is exercise:
Exercising, of course, is very important. You cannot grow any muscle without exercising. If you only want to lose weight, exercising is only optional. You can lose weight without ever going to the gym. But if you want to have a lean body and lose weight, doing both is highly recommended. What exercises to do, and what exercises I do will be discussed in a later post. Right now I am finished with week 8 of my training. My schedule has already changed at least three times: I constantly adjust it to make sure my goals are reached.
A metaphor I like to use to describe the first two pillars’ collaboration with each other. See your body trying to get more muscular as trying to build a house from scratch. Which to ingredients do you need to create the outer house? You need bricks and cement. You can see exercising as piling up bricks, and your food schedule as the cement. With only exercising and not the right food scheme you will end up stacking up a lot of bricks which will eventually fall down since there is not enough cement in between that makes the bricks stay in place. With only eating healthy and not exercising, you will never be able to build a strong wall, since you miss the bricks. It is the combination of both, food and exercise, that will give you the results you want.
The third pillar is sleep. In short, your body needs rest after exercising. When exercising, you actually break down your muscles, but with the right food and rest, you can rebuild your muscle, even stronger than before. Sleep adds value to the resting quality you give your body. Never underestimate how important sleep is for your body. Linking this back to the consistency, there is nothing better than having a consistent sleeping schedule. I always sleep from 11pm until 6am. I used to have difficulties sleeping efficient, but since I use this structure I sleep so efficiently that I am never tired in the morning. And my motivation for the training day excites me so much that I don’t ever spend a minute in bed procrastinating. I jump out of bed every morning the moment the alarm clock goes off. This takes some getting used to. But it is the best thing once you are used to it.
So here you have a small overview of the three pillars that will be discussed more separately in later blog posts. I hope it gave you some information about how important each pillar is, and how consistency is key to success.
In future posts, I will elaborate in more detail about these three pillars. Next Saturday I will elaborate more on my training schedule! If you have a particular question about one of these pillars. Please contact me. I can answer your question and make a blog post about it. I am sure more people are interested in the questions you have!
