After a long year of ups and downs it comes down to this, the New Year, the clean slate. We always take a moment or two to imagine the coming year, maybe even put guidelines to our plans. One thing most of us definitely do is come up with a resolution. Statistics proved that more than 70% of those who make resolutions never go through with them. So we have decided to help you create a list of resolutions with tips on how to stay on track that will help improve your wellbeing.

 

1. GOOD HABITS – We all have good habits, and well if you don’t, well here are some ideas that might brighten your day.

  • Wake up early – the key to adjusting your biological clock is a couple of cranky mornings. To get through them, every day you get up early call a friend and head somewhere for a nice early outdoor breakfast. Eventually you’ll be set to be up, with no alarms, bright and early as the sun, ready for whatever the day throws at you.

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  • Help someone – Find someone that works close to where you live, a doorman, the maid. etc. and try to teach them something new. Reading, exercising, maybe even singing. Whatever that may float their boat.

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  • Smile – just like yawning, smiling is contagious. You can test it, if you have a presentation anytime soon; try smiling at your audience then frowning. Other than smiling being a happy state, it actually helps you physically. Your body benefits from each and every smile (and to you girls, they say the more you smile the better your face ages. So keep practicing.)

 

2. BAD HABITS – It’s very debatable that any creature on this planet doesn’t have atleast one bad habit. Our advice is, DROP THEM LIKE THEY’RE HOT.

  • Smoking – Believe it or not smoking is the number one most used resolution, not gone with through a lot though. If you’re a smoker, read this carefully. You can quit if you really want to. Without the help of patches, gum or support groups. It’s a state of mind and eventually the urge to suck on poison sticks will fade away.

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  • Anger – This is a tricky one. There’s a fine line between resolving your anger and bottling it up. It all depends on how you think, there’s a simple positive way to think about ANYTHING, ‘Everything happens for a reason,’ it sounds cliché, yes we know! But any GURU in India will tell you the exact same thing. Next time you lose a phone, end a relationship, miss a u-turn, or get in an accident. There’s a reason for it, let it be.

 

  • Judgment – There’s a great saying “Don’t judge someone just because they sin differently than you.” We think this sums it all up, don’t you? The key to living happily and guilt free is to simply live and let live. Go around your day judgment free, regardless to what ‘she’ is wearing or how ‘he’ is leading his life. Rise above the gossip and judgments.
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3. Training – Everyone needs motivation to train, and the best motivation is seeing results.

  • Set weekly goals – Training with no goals and targets can be the most de-motivating thing one can do. That’s why we advise you to target a certain number of hours weekly to complete, if you are a beginner, start with 3 hours weekly and move it up to 5. If you are an athlete, forget about the hours, lets talk about intensity. Make every minute of every workout count.

  • Journal – We keep talking about journals like we’re teenage girls just bare with us, please? Keeping a workout journal or log helps you manage your intensity when it comes to resting times, training reps and weights. It also gives you something to look back on and remember where you came from, kind of like a training scrapbook. (You can find them at your gym, or download one from our website.)

  • Training Buddy –Almost everything on earth works in pairs, so why not us too, at the gym/club. Here’s the deal, some days you will walk up feeling like crap. You will want to stay in bed; you will want to skip work, training and everything else. Here’s when your training buddy does his/her magic. You just have to know, some other days you’ll have to learn those magic tricks as well. Something else this training buddy of yours might help you with is chitchatting and motivating you DURING your workout.

 

4. Nutrition –Your body is a temple, yes it is. Yes you!!

  • Carbohydrates – bad carbohydrates? No, not really. All carbohydrates are good, or used to be before they were designed to be shelf products. White bread, white pasta, white riceand white flour are all refined (um we sound like racists) you can keep them on your kitchen shelf for days and they’ll be as good as new. To keep it simple, if the bacteria won’t eat it. Why should you?

  • Calories – Calories are neither tiny creatures in your closet sewing your clothes a bit smaller everyday nor are they scary particles in your food, making you fatter. A calorie is simply an energy unit. As a matter of fact it doesn’t matter if you count your calories as long as you know their source. 400 calories from grilled chicken and veggies are much more worthy than the 300 calories in a snickers bar.

  • Post-workout meal – ‘I don’t want to eat after training, I’ll get fat’ OH HONEY, you haven’t been more wrong in your entire life. If you don’t eat after your body has burnt calories/energy you enter starvation mode. This survival mode is your body’s way of making sure it’s getting enough ‘energy source’. How does your body do that? It slows down your metabolic rate, which ends up with your body storing fat deposits. Then what do you do after training? Have a well-balanced meal of grilled proteins and complex carbohydrates to keep that metabolism of yours burning fat even after your workout.