Everyone Wants to Change! But What Is the Secret?
Ladies and Gentleman, this is the first blog post here on Ali Baba
Fitness, and I hope to god you guys like it and continue to follow it in the
future. There will be lots of laughter, tears, food and motivation along the
way! Stick with me through the journey!
Now back to the Change!
Let me start off by saying that you should want to change your
body because you love it, not because you hate it, or because you are fat.
With that said, if you are struggling to
see results from the current path and fitness efforts you are on. Just simply
change your approach.
Your body has the tendency to get used to
the stuff you are doing and will adapt itself to a situation that gets repeated
day in and day out. This is when you need to throw your body a curve ball.
Change it up.
Now how do you know if you need to change it up? or step up a bit?
Well, your body will give you these signs. Notice that you have been doing
everything the exact same but there is no increase in your strength or no
decrease in your weight loss? Cha Ching! This is when you need to step back and
take your approach a little differently for a bit.
Now here is the best part. Not only am I talking, increasing your
reps, running longer, doing different exercises which we will get into down the
road, but I am talking about giving yourself that ONCE A WEEK, CHEAT MEAL.
Notice how cheat meal is underlined. For many people this one cheat meals turns
into a cheat day or even worse turns into a eating contest for one sitting. No,
this is a cheat meal!
Ever since I can remember, I have always been a big fan of
cheat meals. As I am a big fan of throwing your body curve balls. Why is it
good? well your body is so used to consuming less calories during the week for
6 days straight, it becomes used to it. When giving yourself that ONE cheat
meal, you throw your buddy into a different mode, almost like a shock. The body
sees the onslaught of calories pouring in and it has to work hard to burn these
calories and it's something totally different from the last 6 days.
This brings us to your workout regiment and how you should change
it up so you can continue to grow/lose weight as you wish.
By changing your workout regiment, I don’t necessarily mean to run
longer, or do more sets, I simply mean do a different biceps exercise. Do a
different back exercise then the one you have been doing. You see even the
slightest change in your workout will give you that simple change that tells
your body to wake up and start performing.
Basically the secret is fairly simple, and it's not something that
can't be achieved. We are human, and as humans anything repetitive that we do
for a certain period of time, we get used to it. Our body's are they exact same
way. They become used to the change, and simply stop performing. So change up
your diet, increase your calories, decrease your weights, go to the jungle gym,
do push-ups while holding your baby brother, biceps curls on the toilet! Whatever
it be, just change it up!
