How To Get Fit: A Guide For Beginners
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How To Get Fit: A Guide For Beginners
How To Get Fit: A Guide For Beginners
You’ve decided that it’s time to get yourself into shape and start working towards your health goals. Great – but where do you actually begin?
Instead of spending hours reading, watching videos, scrolling through Tik Tok and getting overwhelmed, all you need to get started is this simple guide.
What do you need to do to get fit and healthy?
There are three core areas that you’ll want to focus on when you first dive into fitness:
Nutrition
Exercise
Mindset
Each of these supports the others, so you want to create habits across all three areas if you want to make a sustainable change.
Down the track, you’ll want to take a look at other factors such as sleep and stress. But for now, let’s stick with the absolute basics.
Nutrition
Talking about nutrition is like talking about politics – no matter what you say about it, someone will disagree with you! Everyone thinks that the diet they found success with is the ‘best diet’ for everyone.
But when it comes to starting out on your fitness journey, you can start with some simple and effective habits to support your fitness journey.
They include:
Drinking more water – work your way up slowly to 2-3L per day
Eat more vegetables – the goal is to hit 5-9 serves daily
Having a serve of protein at every meal
That’s it – no counting calories or weighing your food or overhauling your diet to begin with. Simply focusing on these 3 core habits will help to boost your energy, improve your gut health, keep you satiated and support your recovery from exercise.
It might seem a little too simple, but these are the same habits that I ensure every coaching client incorporates for a reason! They are easy to achieve and have a ripple effect across all areas of wellbeing.
Exercise
When we talk about getting fit, a big part of that is physical activity. But you don’t have to dive straight into Crossfit, marathon running or a 6-day split workout program when you’re first starting out! In fact, it’s often best to start small and build up your consistency first.
To do this, we want to:
Find a way of movement that is enjoyable and easy for you to fit into your day. This could be walking, or it could be a short home workout
Build it into your routine so you are doing it 2-3 times per week consistently
Once you’ve done that for at least a few weeks, increase either 1 day per week or add an additional new form of physical activity. So for example, you could go for 4 walks per week, OR you could go for 3 walks and do a home workout
Want a simple program that doesn’t require equipment or even a gym? Make sure you check out my 8 Week Transformation Challenge.
Mindset
It is the most overlooked part of fitness, but your mindset is actually the most crucial piece of the puzzle. If your mindset around nutrition, exercise and health isn’t right, you’re setting yourself up for failure.
There are many ways that you can work on your mindset, depending on what works for you. I will usually suggest my clients start off with one of the following:
Deep breathing or meditation. To make it easier on yourself, use a guided meditation to help keep you focused
Journaling. You can write about your experiences, what you’re grateful for, or what you want to achieve
Working on your mindset doesn’t have to be a huge commitment to start with. In my 21 day course, Evolution, you can get clear on your goals, practice guided meditations and work on your subconscious behaviours and patterns in as little as 10 minutes per day. For more details and to join the waitlist for next round, check it out here.
What do I do after that?
That’s where you can build on them – by adding in new healthy habits and finding what works for your body and schedule. The great thing about nailing the basics is that it becomes easier to incorporate harder or higher-level habits.
It’s also the ideal time to get some accountability and support going. We want to make sure that your habits stick for the long-term, which can require someone to keep you on track and help you tweak as you go.
This is where 1:1 coaching can make all the difference. With a tailored nutrition and exercise program, support from our private community and mindset coaching, we can help you to break down obstacles and achieve your health goals.
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Hey there, I’m Rachel!
NUTRITIONIST, PERSONAL TRAINER, WELLNESS COACH
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