Create a Plan/Schedule – Step 3

Posted on July 10, 2007. Filed under: fitness, Goals, Health, Losing Weight, Uncategorized, Weight Loss |

Sometimes this step is assumed and never really done. Some people just think of a schedule in their heads, but they don’t consider all the other things going on in their life. When you develop a schedule you should do one for working out and a seperate one that includes everything else going on in your life (i.e., birthday parties, sporting events, travel, doctor appointments, etc.). It is an important step to do so you can see your workout and family schedule in front of you for the next month.

When you actually see the schedules, you might realize that maybe certain days of the week won’t work out for you. You don’t want to overlap workouts with doctor appointments or other commitments. For example, you don’t want to plan on working out after work on Tuesdays and Thursdays if you have doctor appointments on some of those days and your kids have some after school activities that you want to go to over the next few weeks. You don’t want to have these type of important things going on in your life stop you from achieving your goals you wrote down in step 2..

Therefore, maybe in week 1, your workout schedule will be M-W, F, Sat. But the following week, because of events going on you have to work out T-F, Sun. Doesn’t matter the days, as long as you get there. If you write this plan out on a calendar, this will limit the reasons why you can not workout, especially over the next few weeks. Yes, in a perfect world you will workout the same days each week. However, things go on in your life that you can not control so with a schedule you can prevent excuses from stopping you from meeting the goals.

Whenever you write out your workout schedule commit to a certain # of workouts per week. Maybe it is 4 for the first 2-3 weeks. IF so, over the next 2-3 weeks make sure you leave at least 4 days per week to workout. Developing a monthly plan should be done every month, especially during those busy months in the summer.

IF you ever get to a point that your days off and work out days are consist fro a few months, you may want to change things up every few months, especially if you are plateauing.

For me working out at 5 in the morning was the best way for me to avoid from things popping up and preventing me from getting to the gym. It also allowed me to keep a consistent workout schedule for a long time now.

Good luck on your journey to a new you!