How to Stay Consistent in the Gym
Fuel Your Strength
Steph Gaudreau
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🗓️ 15 February 2022
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
When consistency is working, it's great. But what do you do when consistency gets in the way? It can be hard to find a way to frame your goals and your training to move forward when consistency seems to go out the window. However, with a few mindset shifts, you can find some solid ground to stand on and stop being so hard on yourself when it comes to your consistency in the gym.
Key Takeaways
If You Want to Stay More Consistent With Your Workouts, You Should:
- Stop comparing yourself to others or a past version of yourself
- Make a realistic plan for how you are going to show up for yourself and your movement practices
- Seek help and accountability from a trainer or a friend
Main Point #1
A lot of the conversations I have been having with my clients lately have been focused around the idea of consistency, and what to do when your perceived lack of consistency seems to be mocking you. This mindset is rooted in the perfectionist, all-or-nothing camp, which can negatively affect your motivation and consistency towards your goals.
Many of us have a perception that in order to be consistent with something, we need to do it more than we are. But what if you took a minute to stop judging ourselves and stop using consistency as a metric in which we compare ourselves to past versions of ourselves and others?
Main Point #2
A great way to make your consistency feel more real is to plan for every aspect of what your practice is going to take and be realistic about its necessity of it. By understanding that there is value in moving, even if you are not 100% perfect or consistent, you can define your own personal version of consistency in the here and now.
Redefining what consistency means for you and separating the idea that consistency means perfection will help you train smarter, not harder. I want you to get the most out of your training, and when we can only focus on what we aren't doing, we tend to forget about all of the great things we are doing.
Are you ready to shift your mindset around what consistency, success, and progress look like to you? Share your thoughts and struggles with consistency with me in the comments section of the episode page.
In This Episode
- Learn about the problematic language that can surround your idea of consistency (5:49)
- How to define what consistency looks like to you here and now without comparing yourself to your past or others (9:20)
- Why you need to be realistic about how often and how hard you can work out and make it count (12:52)
- Discover why consistency and habits are not necessarily as connected as you may believe (18:11)
- What to do if you are struggling with the idea of consistency and dont know how to move forward (19:45)
Quotes
“When things are going well, and you feel like you are hitting your stride, the idea of consistency in your habits, in your training, in whatever practices you are trying to implement, can really feel amazing, until it is not.” (2:43)
“Let's figure out what is going to help you move forward, build strength, get results, work efficiently, make the most out the time you do have, and that is your consistency level, and that is fine.” (9:16)
“We can go hard, but we have to be wise about how hard we go, and also take into consideration some of the variables that go into how hard we personally can go.” (13:31)
“Sometimes life happens. We have to be forgiving and compassionate about that, and we have to be understanding.” (18:57)
“You don't have to be perfect, you don't have to make consistency yet another thing that you feel is so heavy in your life, another thing that you are not doing good enough. You are doing good enough.” (25:34)
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| 0:00.0 | When it comes to building your strength, one of the most common concepts that comes up between coaches and athletes is the idea of consistency. |
| 0:10.5 | And when it's going well, consistency as a concept can be so helpful. |
| 0:16.1 | Gone are the days of perfectionism, and it can be a lot easier to embrace the idea of slow changes and a commitment to something over time. |
| 0:26.0 | But when consistency really starts to get in your way, it's hard to know how you can actually frame your goals and your training so that you can move forward when consistency seems to go AWOL. |
| 0:39.5 | On this show, we're going to be talking exactly about that, giving you some other ways you can potentially conceive of your strength goals so you can really get the most out of your training. |
| 0:51.5 | The Listen to Your Body Podcast is all about helping women who lift weights, get stronger, fuel themselves without counting every bite of food, perform better in and out of the gym and take up space. |
| 1:07.0 | I'm Strength Coach, Nutritional Therapy Practitioner and Certified Intuitive Eating Counselor, Steph Goddrow. |
| 1:14.0 | This weekly show brings you discussion about building strength without obsessing about food and exercise, lifting weights, food psychology, and more. |
| 1:25.0 | You'll learn how to eat, train, recover, listen to your body, and step into your strength. |
| 1:32.0 | Hit subscribe on your favorite podcast app, and let's dive in. |
| 1:38.0 | Hello, my friend, and welcome back to the podcast. I am so happy to have you here today. Thank you very much for joining me. |
| 1:48.0 | If you're a new listener, hello, and welcome to the podcast. If you're a returning listener, I thank you so very much for coming back week after week and spending some time with me. |
| 2:01.0 | Today's topic is really one that I think whether you're new or you've been here for a while, you're probably going to get something out of no matter where you stand on the issue of consistency. |
| 2:13.0 | I've been having a lot of conversations with my one-on-one clients about consistency and with my strength nutrition unlocked group members on consistency, and one thing is clear. |
| 2:26.0 | When things are going well and you feel like you're hitting your stride, the idea of consistency in your habits, in your training, in whatever practices you're trying to implement can really feel amazing until it's not. |
| 2:44.0 | What do you do when consistency seems to go out the window and you are just struggling to find some solid ground to stand on? |
| 2:54.0 | What do you do when the idea of consistency, which was once so helpful, now seems to be mocking you? We're going to be covering all of that on this podcast episode. |
| 3:05.0 | Before we hop in, just a reminder to check out strength nutrition unlocked. This is my group program for nutrition. It's going to help you understand how to fuel smarter so you can left more efficiently and get stronger. |
| 3:20.0 | If you've been struggling with your energy, your lifting has been plateauing and you've been really finding it hard to either get to the gym because you're not motivated or put more weight on the bar or whatever it is. |
| 3:32.0 | And you are really interested in diving in and getting a strategy so that you have energy, you start to gain strength again, your building muscle, and you're having fun while doing it and not change to a food scale, then come and check out more information on my website. |
| 3:50.0 | And you'll find that at stefcojo.com slash link. |
| 3:54.0 | This episode was really inspired by a lot of conversations I've been having with my one on one nutrition clients and also my group clients, my group members in strength nutrition unlocked the idea that consistency when things are going really well feels great. |
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