4 Habits To Increase Your Consistency In Workout

While you've read so many exercises and workout routines in our previous blogs, It's time for me to tell you what all can you do to increase your consistency for better results! One of the key elements to success in endurance sports is consistency. Learn the top four habits you should form that will help you stay on track with your training. 

Consistency is not a skill or talent, you have direct control over it. Here are four habits that will increase your consistency and ultimately your success on race day. 

1. Plan and Schedule Your Workouts

Scheduling workouts on the same day every week will help with consistency. For example, every Monday might be an easy swim, every Tuesday a hard bike and so on. By creating a repeating schedule that you know works for you you minimize the chances to missing a workout. If your goal as a triathlete is to complete three swim, three bike and three run workouts per week, put all the workouts into your calendar as repeating events. 

2. Be Purposeful

Each and every workout should have a purpose. Putting in unnecessary volume increases your risk of injury and overtraining. Instead, focus on the workouts you need to do and consider the quality, not quantity, of each session. In doing so, you free up time to do everything else that you need to do rather than create unnecessary conflicts.

3. Follow Your Plan as Best as you Can

For most of us who do not make our living as professional athletes, the reality is that we may not be able get in 100 percent of our workouts each week. A good target is to complete 75 to 85 percent of your planned workouts in a given week. Note the key workouts during the week and focus on getting those workouts in. You’ll receive the desired training effect while allowing more flexibility in your life.

4. If You are Short on Time, Do a Shorter Workout

This may seem obvious, but I’ve been guilty of skipping long workouts altogether rather than doing a quick 30 minute swim, bike or run. Rather than feeling down about not getting the full workout in, be positive about having done some workout rather than nothing.

While these are fairly simple steps to follow, they are also very important. One of the key elements to success in any fitness goal is putting in the work over time. Staying consistent through every week leads to fitness gains and limits injuries so you can reach your full potential. As Jim Rohn once said, ”Discipline is the bridge between goals and accomplishment.”

Here are some bonus tips for you to be more consistent:

• Do what you like to do
• Track your workouts
• Don’t overdo it
• Trim down your goals
• Don’t get pigeonholed into one type of workout
• Forget the ‘all or nothing’ mentality — look at each day as a series of choices

This is all for today, I hope you got some meaningful understanding from today’s blog. Thank you for your precious time, see you all in the next blog.😁

By Aryan Veerwani (Team SYNC Snippets)