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This week Urban Vitality Personal Trainer, John Limpus highlights the top three areas to focus on when trying to shift excess weight and unwanted body fat.

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Our sessions are also a little more social than the gym and we take our nutrition as seriously as our exercise!

Urban Vitality are a Chiswick and Acton based Personal Training company that specialise in outdoor exercise bootcamps and fitness retreats.

In 5 years we have developed what we believe is a winning formula for getting people fit, lean and happy in minimum time!

Nothing's gonna stop ya!

Well, it’s January and the New Year has filled us all with new hope and expectation hasn’t it?

After two weeks of Christmas films, too much booze and the “New Year” fireworks, we’re back to work and feel a little more “Ready To Rock” than perhaps we were in mid December.

Is this finally the year when you get super fit and shed that stubborn weight?

Well, statistically at least, the chances of this “Being the year” are pretty slim.

In fact 97% of new year resolutions are never archived and 78% are abandoned within the first three months…

So what makes those 3% of resolutions stick and how can we bulletproof ours against failure?

Here are 5 secrets on which we have built our Bootcamp Formula to help you achieve your fitness goals this year.

1) Planning

Annoyingly obvious

Perhaps the reason that so many health and fitness regimes fail is that people under estimate just how much time and effort  health and fitness can require.

Dropping weight permanently means learning new meal ideas, different stress management techniques (less booze!) AND finding an exercise regime that you enjoy enough to do consistently over a few weeks/months.

Calorie counting and a 20 minute jog are EASY to start but destined to fail (for the majority of people) if that is all you are going to rely on.

Our Complete Bootcamp includes, recipe ideas, socials and events, a variety of different workout challenges AND cash prizes for great results.

Make sure your plan covers these areas if you want to achieve that goal!

2) Accountability

Outsource it...

Whilst our intentions may be sound at the beginning of the year, real life can very quickly take priority again!

Work stresses, family concerns and social obligations will all place additional strain on that resolution as the year goes on.

Our Bootcamps have accountability registers (with recognition for achievements and warnings for low attendance) in order to help you stay focused when it is easier to get distracted.

We don’t do drop in sessions either, so if you miss a session you don’t get it back!

Make sure you have some accountability in place for when the going gets tough!

3) Pace yourself

Great approach...

Perhaps the main problem with the majority of health and fitness regimes is that people go too fast, too soon!

If I have not run for a few months I will always start with a few 3 x 7 minute jogs (with a minute recovery) in order to get my calves and ankles used to the impact again. Yet on New Years Day I regularly hear of people going out for a quick 20 minute jog to burn off some excess.

Many of these people have not run since September and they wonder why they get ankle/knee problems after two weeks?

Our Complete Bootcamp gets gradually harder over the four week cycle allowing new exercises to adapt and more experienced boot campers to recover.

Make sure your exercise program is PACED to avoid injury / burnout.

4) Patience

Fergus loves this game too...

It’s amazing how long a month can feel isn’t it?

Yet that is all it takes to see real progress.

Just four weeks sustained effort and you can lose up to a stone of body fat on our Bootcamp.

Yet, the majority of health and fitness resolutions will have finished long before that!

Whatever you start, ask yourself, “Can I sustain this for at least a month?”

If you can’t the results will be very short lived.

5) Routine

Make things easier on yourself...

And that brings me to the last point. Routine.

Perhaps the most important point of all.

To highlight just how important this is check out the results of this study I found.

“A group of subjects were asked to exercise at least once at anytime during the next week. Based on this request alone only 29% complied. A second group were given the same challenge, along with detailed information about the role exercise plays in reducing the risk of heart disease. Compliance rose modestly to 39%. A third group were asked to exercising at a specific time, on a specific day at a designated location. For this group compliance more than doubled to 91%!”

Source, “The way we’re working isn’t working” Tony Schwarz.

So, in conclusion, do Bootcamp. No seriously…. Do Bootcamp if you want to bullet proof your health and fitness resolutions!

If you aren’t in Chiswick or Acton then simply make sure that your regime includes the factors listed above.

After all this year COULD be the year you make that big break through, as long as you Bullet proof yourself.