Get ready to say 'BOO!' to your body!

Do you, or perhaps you have friends that exercise consistently, yet don't seem to get results and always look the same?

This would be fine and dandy if their goal was to stay looking the same but in most cases it isn't.

Have you heard of the saying "If you do what you have always done, you will get what you have always got?" I use to have this on my bedroom wall while I was competing and it is a true reminder to most aspects of life from business to personal matters.

To make a change we have to recreate change, and to do this we must try to re frame from venturing down the same paths if they were not the right paths to begin with.  For example, you have a goal to run a half marathon or even a 10km, you hate running and feel like everything seizes up, your knees hurt and it takes all your mite to do the workout.  You don't complete the task and feel like a failure, yet try again in a few months time. Nothing here is being achieved and you are better off trying something completely different, that you will enjoy PLUS get results.

You need to find a workout that is going to give you results, instead of wasting time with one that hasn't.  Just going through the motions isn't going to get us anywhere , you may as well stay sitting on the couch.  I know, you have to start somewhere but make sure this 'somewhere' , isn't where you stay.  Intensity, and progression is what you are chasing.

I love to mix it up with water sports, running, spinning, dancing and exercise DVDs at home.  One trainer that actually motivates me is Tracy Anderson and her philosophy is to mix it up constantly and challenge your body with different movements so not one muscle group is being overworked.  All her videos sit on my hard drive in the gym and it is so easy to run in and turn them on when I have a spare moment.  She has plenty on YouTube as well but here are a couple you can test the water's with.

This is part one of four of the mini tramp workout which you can find on YouTube, plus she has a new one coming out this month

Based on a dance background to lengthen rather than build bulk

It's all about the core and something that should form the basis of any workout routine.

It is comforting to find some routine in our workouts but the secret really is finding a routine of many routines. Spice it up, stimulate and trick your body, make it a unfavourable environment for excess weight to settle, wake it up with a real BOO!!

What is your favourite way to trick things up when you are feeling bored of your usual workout?