Common Fitness Tips to Avoid

It’s highly recommended to make health and fitness a priority in your life. After all, it can bring so many advantages — you’ll have more energy, you’ll be happier, and you’ll be increasing your chances of being fit and healthy when you’re older, too.

So if you’ve begun the journey towards improving this side of yourself, then well done. However, it’s important to keep in mind that you’ll only get results if you work on your fitness the right way.

All too often, newcomers make mistakes that hold them back from reaching their goals. In this post, we’ll outline some of the most common mistakes, so make sure you’re not guilty of them. 

Common Fitness Tips to Avoid

One Focus

Most people decide to begin exercising because they have a particular goal in mind. Perhaps they want to lose some weight from their waist. Perhaps they want to have bigger, stronger arms.

However, while it’s good to set goals, it’s important not to become too preoccupied with reaching one particular target. Good fitness means good all-around fitness. There’s little value in just being extremely fit in one specific part of your body.

So don’t just focus on strength or cardio — incorporate both into your workout routine. 

Irregular Workouts 

We understand that it can be difficult to set time aside to spend time in the gym. But it’s worthwhile looking at the frequency with which you’re attending. It’s better to go more frequently for a shorter amount of time, rather than going occasionally for a long period of time.

For example: going three times a week for 45 minutes is better than spending three hours on a Saturday morning at the gym. Try to improve the frequency of your workouts, and you’ll notice better results. 

Food Mistakes

Ask the fittest people in the gym what their secret is, and they’ll tell you that their results are half because of what they do in the gym, and half of what they put into their body. In other words: what you eat is important!

So it’s worthwhile educating yourself on different types of food and how they’ll impact your body. In many cases, people believe misconceptions that hold their fitness goals back.

For example, if you ask someone, ‘Is cheese high in cholesterol?’ then they’ll likely say ‘Yes.’ But the truth is more complicated than that, and you certainly don't want to cut out all cheese from your diet. Cottage cheese, for example, can be extremely beneficial in helping people gain lean muscle. 

Expecting Overnight Results

This is probably the biggest mistake that people make. You might want to have overnight results, but that’s not going to happen. The changes happen on the inside first and then on the outside.

You may not notice physical improvements for a couple of months after you’ve started your exercise regimen. But just be aware that, so long as you keep going, you will see the effects. Most people give up just before they see results — don’t be one of those people. Keep going!