buhff_rob

Why bother training?

It’s a question you have probably asked yourself a thousand times. The thing is if you don’t have a good answer, eventually you probably won’t bother.

Many of the people I have coached come to me with aesthetic or specific body composition goals which is absolutely fine. Wanting to look a bit better in your birthday suit is a perfectly good reason to get in shape.

What I have learned over time however is that most people find it a bit of an anti-climax when they hit their desired weight and wonder “where next?!”.

That is why I think performance related goals have the upper hand.

Take my recent outing at Hyrox Manchester with for example.

We aimed to get round in under 1hr 30mins which we managed with a few minutes to spare.

Thats my score on the board and I now want to improve on that at Hyrox London in April which I’m doing with my client

To Make that happen I will have some specific training goals as well as some nutrition goals as I want to drop some weight - 102kg arguably not the ideal weight for this event!

Now I’m not saying that diet is less important than exercise. I just think that the more positive/healthier way to frame it is to have your primary goals as performance related and then support those with your diet.

Also training with your mates and doing events like Hyrox is about 1000 x more fun than starving yourself for a photo shoot.

If you what some help finding a goal for 2022 then please get in touch.

Rob x

What’s got two thumbs and won the BUHFF step challenge?

Massive Congratulations to Sel who emerged victorious with a total of 241,993 steps in just 21 days!

In addition to this he has been training 2-3 times every week while juggling a full time job in the city.

Great work mate - keep up the good work 🙌🏼