Chasing a performance based goal is very helpful.
You'll exercise like you should and you'll eat like you should in an effort to get there as quick as possible.
What do you learn this way?
The diet and exercise are essential for feeling and looking your best.
Sound better?
Chasing a bodyweight goal is not helpful.
You'll exercise more than you should and eat less than you should in an effort to get there as quick as possible.
What do you learn this way?
That diet and exercise is too hard and it sucks.
Sound familiar?
Back squat 3 x 6-8
Good mornings 3 x 8-10
Bulgarian split squats 3 x 12-15
Back extension or reverse hyper 3 x 20
The difference between this being a simple workout and a hard one is the effort you give.
Imagine going to your first day of kindergarten and your teacher gives you calculus homework.
That's like you trying to track macros when your nutritional knowledge is mostly which fast food place has the best $1 menu.
Attempting a "quick fix" weight loss plan in adulthood is the same as your 10 yr old kid cleaning their room by throwing everything in the closet.
The mess is just hidden and their room will look the same in a week.
One huge benefit of aiming for long streaks when you're working on building better habits is that even if you break your streak 3 times, you still did it 27 out of 30 days.
That's a 90% completion rate and that's more than you need to hit just about any goal.
@scrowder I hope your new year's resolution was to be less of an insensitive dick. She's literally engaging in a healthy activity you fucking douche canoe.
Losing 12 lbs of fat and keeping all of your muscle mass will totally change your body. That's a loss of only 1 lb/month.
Imagine โฌ๏ธ muscle instead of just preserving it.
That reduces the overall weight lost but you change your body even more!
โ๏ธ change is the goal, right?
If you're a gym rat you could be the reason someone succeeds this year instead of quits.
Maybe be friendly and encouraging instead of mean mugging the gym newbies this year.
No one wants to workout with a bunch of assholes.
"Something is better than nothing!"
Be careful with how often you say and use this phrase.
Play this card too often and your "something" workouts will give you "nothing" results.