Your Fitness: The secret ingredient to achieving something worthwhile

Our more successful endeavours are often aligned with no small amount of effort
Your Fitness: The secret ingredient to achieving something worthwhile

Effort will always be the driving force behind what you set your mind to.

Something I think is rife in the fitness industry at the moment, the obsession in discovering the next best life-changing hack proposed to get you to your goals faster and with less work. 

Chasing the finer details before mastering the basics. 

Trying to run before you can walk. 

It all falls within the same theme - missing the forest for the trees! 

Fixating over the newest range of health supplements instead of hitting that gym session you promised yourself you were going to do this morning. 

Telling everybody all the great things you are planning to do while inherently doing everything you can to delay and excuse yourself from the work needed to achieve the things you know you are capable of.

In my experience, this “secret ingredient” can only be defined as one thing - effort. 

This may ruffle some feathers, or maybe it will inspire; but effort will be at the fulcrum of every action you do. 

The correlation between effort and success is not groundbreaking, but it is often overshadowed by the noise generated within the fitness industry time and time again. 

As we go through life and reflect on past experiences, the more successful and worthwhile endeavours we found ourselves on, were often aligned with no small amount of effort on your part. 

Effort will always be the driving force behind what you set your mind to, make sure this is right before you start looking to optimise rather than master the basics you have not yet wrapped your head around. 

Effort means going for that gym session when you can think of several excuses not to go. 

Effort means getting out or that daily walk you promised yourself you would do each evening. 

Effort means making sure you follow the plan and keep the promises that you made to yourself.

As one of my favourite sayings goes - “How you do one thing, is how you do everything.” 

What’s your standard? Set the bar at the height you can sustain and apply across the board within the multitude of variables that are in your life. 

Make this your baseline, this is where you build from. 

Do the work, embrace the struggle - take pride in the outcome.

Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment, full effort is full victory” - Mahatma Gandhi 

Lastly, I would also like to clarify that I am not a registered dietician. 

All advice disclosed here is simply advisory based on my qualifications as a fitness professional and personal experience and knowledge gained working with individuals and helping them reach their goals. 

The advice given is not designed to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any health problem - nor is it intended to replace the advice of a physician. Always consult your physician or qualified health professional on any matters regarding your health.

I hope someone out there found some of this information useful here, just some food for thought. 

For any questions in relation to this topic or training, nutrition, etc. or for coaching inquiries simply message me on my business page on Instagram @coachedbycashel_ or by email - coachedbycashel@gmail.com

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