Holiday Fitness Ideas and Tips

The summer holidays are known for food, festivities and feeling flat at the end of it all! You can easily avoid that Boxing Day bloat with a few simple practical steps.

1. Eat a hearty, nutritious breakfast

By starting every day with a substantial breakfast, you avoid overeating and ensure your metabolism is awake and satiated before the indulgence starts. Ensue you include high protein options such as yoghurt, eggs or even a protein shake. This will keep you full and sustained while you prepare meals or organise travel to your events and family occasions.  people dancing on a cliff at sunset

2. Stay hydrated: stick to water with meals.
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Alcohol and coffee consumption can easily skyrocket once the holiday break begins (and in the last few weeks of work). They become a vicious partnership as you use coffee to get through sluggish mornings and wind down from lunch with wine and spirits. Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) has a technique where you can associate a new habit with an existing one to produce a change in behaviour. Add more water to your day by ensuring you have a large glass of water with every meal (and snacks). This will reduce false appetite; keep you hydrated and break any unconscious drinking habits which creep up over the holidays.

3. 30 minutes of novelty a day

The change in routine over the holidays makes keeping a routine almost impossible. You might be relaxing away from home or trying to prepare your home for guests and visitors- how do you find time to workout? One strategy is to make yourself do an activity advent (like the advent calendars with chocolate) where you find a new activity to do every day for only 30 minutes.

Some ideas include:

  • Learn a YouTube or TikTok dance routine with friends or family

  • Take a 30 minute Christmas lights walking tour of your neighbourhood

  • Use social media to see if any of your friends need their pets walked and take their pet out for 30 minutes (and be a great friend!).

  • Download the GeoCaching app and see what is hidden around your area.

  • Hire snorkel gear and explore the shore dives on the Sunshine or Gold Coast

  • Set a timer and do a 30 minute prune of trees in your yard- a quick tidy up can make all the difference!

We’d love to hear your ideas- next year we may put the best ideas together for a 12 weeks before Christmas fitness challenge!man backflipping off a boat into water

Keep moving now and thank yourself in the New Year!

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What is the fitness hack ALL personal trainers use?

Fitness hacks are strategies you can use to improve your workouts. Sometimes they are techniques like how to position your elbows during tricep pushdowns (tuck and lock them). Sometimes fitness hacks are ways to balance your workout such as alternating between upper body (arm-day) and lower-body (leg-day). However, there is one fitness hack ALL personal trainers use: accountability.

Showing up is the #1 struggle.

Consistency is the key to any workout. It doesn’t matter if you lift weights, Zumba, ballroom dance or do synchronised swimming. If you examine the routine of any fit person, you will see a dedicated lifestyle spanning years of consistent effort. Don’t feel disheartened if that hasn’t happened for you! Our magic word is ‘yet’.

Personal trainers begin with the habit of showing up to a dedicated session. When you book in at our studio, you have two people showing up to support your fitness goals: us and you. We know you already feel guilty when you don’t meet the activity and health goals you set for yourself. We transfer that guilt to the guilt of not showing up to a session where you develop your strength, empower your will and receive the health benefits of a strong and active body. Our trainers will text you the day before to remind you of your session and we do not accept cancellations within 24 hours. This is to support your commitment to the sessions and shut-down the last minute “I’m too tired” feeling. It will pass.older woman in white shirt and black leggings doing yoga

Fitness hacks become lifelong habits.

If you are ready to make the change and move the guilt out of your life, we can help. Book in for a studio tour and let us make the effort with you. It only takes a few weeks of showing up consistently to see and feel the difference a regular routine can make. We won’t let life get in the way of making your commitment become the results you are chasing.

The first step is turning up. Do that every week and the rest will take care of itself.blurred image of cyclist in motion

Message Recharged Personal Training to hack into your new life.

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