5 Easy Steps To Keep Up Your Summer Fitness

Autumn is here, and with the cooler weather seems to come increasing lethargy as we reach for the warmer comfort foods and doona time.

As much as we love curling up on the couch, it is important to stay active to maintain your health and wellness as well as your mental health and positive moods. So we’ve listed a few of our tips to maintain fitness motivation and revamp your lifestyle into a more active and healthier state.

1. Have A Good Morning Routine

Having a healthy morning routine is essential to provide structure and build good habits. Routines have also been proven to increase efficiency and productivity. So it makes sense to have a morning routine that provides us with the nutrition that we need for an active and healthy lifestyle.

One of the easiest and most effective morning routines that we love, is having a tall glass of water with Bare Greens and a squeeze of lemon, along with your wholefood breakfast.
If mornings are your ideal time to exercise, then use this time to get active. Plan everything you need the night before, and set your alarm nice and early.

2. Set Achievable Goals

Goal setting and planning is an easy way to make sure that you're accountable for your workouts. Setting goals that are achievable is the key to success. For example, don't force yourself into working out six days a week straight away. Start off with smaller intervals and work your way up to more frequent workouts with nutrition that complements your exercise routine.

3. Recovery

As your body adjusts to a new exercise regime, it’s important to be mindful of your recovery. Your body needs to be respected and fed with sufficient nutrition after exercise. This is integral to your muscle repair and growth. Without this, your muscles could be sore and you could lack energy for your next session.

Your muscles absorb whatever nutrients you feed yourself with after exercise, so refuelling properly is important. A high-quality protein is the best to consume, as it will assist with recovery, help to build muscle, and provide your body with the required nutrients. We recommend our Whey Protein Isolate blends post-workout, as they have a very high amount of protein and will help to promote healthy weight loss in conjunction with exercise.

4. Get An Exercise Buddy

To increase motivation, run with a friend. This again will make you accountable, and will increase your enjoyment.
Alternatively, enrolling in a fitness class, such as yoga, a team sport, or a class at the gym is a great idea. After a few weeks, you won't even think about bailing on a session, as your workouts will become habitual and no doubt, really enjoyable.
If you're surrounded by people with active lifestyles and healthy habits, there is a high chance you will pick up these positive behaviours.

5. Practice Mindfulness

A huge percentage of performance, particularly in sport, is mental. So even though we're often busy focusing on physical things such as what time the yoga class starts, the weather, what to wear, what to eat after, etc, we forget how the effect that our mindset has on our health and performance.
Experts say that mental distractions can make it very difficult to maintain perspective and concentrate on our goals. If we're distracted or stressed, we have trouble making good decisions and solving problems.

If you have yet to try mindfulness meditation, it could be time that you do. More than just a buzzword in holistic health at the moment, there are some real benefits to training the mind into peace, focus, and a more open perspective, which in turn helps us to perform at our best.
It's very easy to do, and won't take much time out of your day. We suggest trying an app like Headspace, Smiling Mind, or Calm to help you start.

Whatever you do, make sure you find the routine works best for you, and enjoy yourself along the way.
Now is the perfect time to start implementing positive changes, and we're sure that you'll see your overall happiness increase, along with your fitness. You got this!