Don’t Give Up Strength Training When Life Gets Hard

In this Video...
Coach Sheree encourages women over 50 to stay committed to their strength journey, even when life gets tough. Learn how adaptability and mindset can keep you going.

Mindset | Story-Based | No-Equipment

How Do You Respond to Setbacks

Hi there beautiful people, I want to ask you a question today. How adaptable are you when things come your way, circumstances come your way to totally derail you, totally take you off track with all your efforts on eating well, staying fit, healthy, strong, keeping a good mindset and feeling good about your life.

Are you one of those ones that when things come your way you just give up or do you have a plan B where you push forward and maintain looking after yourself while you deal with the problem that's come your way? Because problems will come our way and we can't really stop them but our mindset will determine if we push through that or if we just give up.

When Good Intentions Aren't Enough

So how many people really start strength training or start a fitness thing seems to be January every year in the new year, people have this mindset I'm going to do it, this is my year. They get a few weeks in and something derails them because they're not committed to it and so they will fall away and you don't ever see them again.

A Changed Mindset Through Adversity

I think of those people actually that have been through a major thing in their life and they've come through it but their mindset has changed so they've had to deal with something pretty traumatic maybe but they've come through it and said wow my life is more full now than what it was before I went through this experience.

They changed their mindset and they just are so thankful for that experience that they had even though it was not a fun one.

Adapt and Keep Moving

I want to just tell you about one of my clients that's coming to train this week she thought that she has just had surgery on both of her hands she's had a congenital deformity since birth and she's just finally had these hands operated on.

She's been told by the surgeon, "you cannot go back to do any strength training for two whole months."

And I thought more about this and I said to her I called her up and I said how about if you come and we just don't use your hands so we'll use your core we'll use your glutes we'll use your legs we'll do everything else but we won't use your hand.

So she's coming in a couple of days time to do a workout where we're not going to use her hands at all it'll be a bit of a challenge for me as her trainer and coach but that's all right I know I can do it.

I've trained people before where they've broken their legs and they have not missed a session so I've done it before we can do it again.

Modify the Plan Not the Goal

If you're somebody that's training at the moment you're struggling then make smaller periods of time in which you train you may only train for 10 or 15 minutes.

I've got a client at the moment that said I know if you give me anything more than 10 or 15 minutes at home as my homework I won't do it.

So she's got 10 or 15 minutes of homework at home to do before she sees me again the next week.

We also may need to have lighter weights you know if you're finding it a struggle to lift weights and you don't want to do strength training because you can't lift the weight go lighter weights.

If you find you're getting tighter have bigger rest periods in between the sets of exercises that you're doing so there's always ways to adapt.

Two Types of People

How adaptable are you.

So you can have lady A who comes along and she's got a full life family stuff's going on she's got her aging parents to look after she's got kids to take to sport but she prioritises herself as well.

In the midst of all that and even if it's only 10 minutes a day 15 minutes a day she'll still do her workout routines and she'll maintain that till she knows she can have more time to spend on herself

Then the second lady is a lady who just finds it too hard she's got her ageing parents she's got kids still at home she has to take to sports and she just finds it too hard so she doesn't even bother to do smaller workouts she just gives up and that's it for her.

She gives up and she just does nothing to look after herself that is another kind of mindset.

The Challenge: Who Do You Want to Be?

You can be lady A or lady B it totally depends upon you.

But i would challenge you today who do you want to be somebody that has issues that come along problems that come along but you push through them.

Or lady number B who just gives up and then her body starts to just not work for her as the years go by.

And you know you can start strength training down the track but sometimes it's been too much time and you know that you could have avoided this injury and that injury had you kept going with small amounts of fitness.

So yeah just see see how you go today with that and just maybe have a bit of a think about it what sort of a person are you and if challenges come how do i react.