Lifestyle + Fitness
My fitness journey: From fat to fit.
After an injury in college left my shoulder and collarbone unable to do any exercise, I swelled up like a balloon, I gave up on sports, exercise, and pretty much any kind of physical activity and traded them in for eating unhealthy meals and being a total couch potato, oftentimes glued to video games and TV for hours on end. This is what I did to get back into fitness and live a healthier lifestyle.
When it comes to weight loss, nutrition plays a huge part, more than you would think. About 80% of it is nutrition and the rest is your weight training or cardio routines. It’s also very important to note that the key here is going to be consistency, my good friend and personal trainer Hans told me this and it has stuck ever since, it takes 21 days to make a habit and 90 days to make it a lifestyle. This is a great rule of thumb but keep in mind everyone is different and it can take people up to 200 days to fully form a new habit, the takeaway here is: commit to it. No matter what, just commit. This is where a lot of these apps come in handy. You can use them to track your nutrition, set notifications, and reminders to help you get off the couch, compete against yourself to achieve your next PR (Personal Record), the list goes on.