Video and column: Colour-code your way to better fitness

Over the past few weeks, we have set smart goals by developing habits, diving into your nutrition and being mindful of how you move when exercising, and most importantly developing our mental and physical wellbeing.

This is such a fundamental area for personal trainers: to develop any real long-term success we must coach in all these areas, and therefore guide and advise to promote total wellbeing.

While a stream of information is useful, how we interpret it, and how we action our plan is a really important process, otherwise with are likely to fail on our long-term game.

It is important to understand you will naturally jump off the path from time to time, however if you have designed a routine or structure you can follow, it will be easier to get back on track again

Therefore, this week I thought it was important to put these goals into action by mapping out a simple plan and provide you with a little task you can complete, to support your success.

So firstly, pen and paper to hand, or a digital device, and begin to answer the following, you can use your smart goals from the earlier weeks.

1 What is your goal – want do you really want?

2 What areas do you feel are working well towards achieving this goal?

3 What areas are not?

4 What obstacles are you facing?

Once you have really started to think about these areas, you are going to draw a table which includes seven days of the week, including a column of the time of the day.

Then make a colour code for each of the areas, for example, work, home and leisure time – which includes the time you have dedicated to training, example ‘workout’.

Now this can be super detailed and can be used for all areas of your life, to help you stay focused, however it’s important you display this so its visual aid to you your family, and remember their support towards your success is important, and helps them understand particular times of the week which you have assigned for you; ie, ‘workout time’

You may also include them into a particular activity but remember if you have a bad day or week, you can always jump back to visual plan and get back on track.

This task above is a great tool to complete with the family, get adventurous with everyone one involved and make it fun, it will help motivate you towards success.