Top 5 Fitness Habits For 2019!

Your thoughts become your values, your values become your actions, your actions become your habits, your habits become your life and your results.

The success we achieve in fitness or any area of life is a sum of what we do every day/week/month/year. So are the top 5 fitness habits you should start incorporating immediately to make sure you achieve your goals this year.

Habit #1: Weigh yourself every day !

That’s right. Before you jump off this article due to ignorant beliefs or what you read in the another blog, let me say this: What gets measured gets managed. What MATTERS get measured. Don't you agree?

If you don’t care about your body weight, fine. But you SHOULD. How much you weigh IS important, and it’s time you stop believing it isn’t in 2019. I’m NOT saying it defines who you are. That’s stupid. But if you’re 5’6 and weigh over 200 pounds, you might want to take care of that first.

Habit #2: Track your food intake

THIS IS KEY. If you think tracking calories is no way to live life, then maybe you think tracking your money is no way to live life either. Fine, if you don’t mind living pay check to pay check, or don’t care to improve your health as much as you can, you’re not reaching your goals in 2019 and this article isn't for you.

You MUST be aware of how much you’re eating. How else do you know what to manipulate ? There is no need to jump from program to program - just track calories, and make it flexible to your preferences and your lifestyle. That is it. Be sure to check out my other videos on my YouTube channel for more in-depth teachings on how and where to start with this.

Habit #3: 80/20 rule for food selection.

What is this ? 80% micronutrient-dense foods, and 20% calorie dense(foods you prefer).

This habit really comes down to the one no one wants to hear BUT, is kind of good news in itself. You gotta get used to saying NO to the calorie dense-foods MOST of the time. Make room for them (and you can do that by doing habit #1 & #2) but in order to be satisfied throughout the day and not crave the calorie dense foods all of the time, you gotta go for nutrient dense ones. So find the ones you like, and you can keep those in your house. Pick one or two of your preferred calorie dense foods and limit them to fit your calories when you feel like you need it. Huge key to flexible dieting right there.

Habit #4: Meal Prep!

2 hours a WEEK - that's all it takes. There’s 168 hours in the week, find 2 and that can go a long way in changing your nutrition, and your body as a result.

Pick a day, and plan on doing this weekly. All you have to do is plan out and make a certain amount of meals for each day. I recommend sticking to 1 to 3 different meal options (swapping proteins and carbs) so you don’t over complicate it.

This habit will revolutionize EVERYTHING, and it helps bring all of the previous habits together in a way that makes it work seamlessly.

Habit #5: Drink more water and track progress

I put 2 in one here, but drinking water should be pretty self-explanatory. 

Get some sort of calendar, or something to help you stay accountable for sticking to the plan.

Look, if you fall off just don’t fly off the hinges or judge yourself. It’s bound to happen, just get back on track and stick to the process. It’s all about eliminating the losses. Fit people are NOT perfect nor do they eat perfect. We just simply minimize our losses and, as a result, enjoy and choose when to eat what we want... letting our habits do the leg work!

Thanks for reading, and I look forward to seeing and hopefully being apart of your transformation this year!