Start Here: Build a Training Routine You Can Repeat

Sep 22, 2023

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Updated: 23 hours ago

You do not need the perfect programme before beginning. You need a clear goal, a manageable starting point and a way to review what happens.

Choose the first goal

Be specific enough to make decisions: becoming more comfortable in the gym, building strength, returning to sport or establishing a routine. You can care about several outcomes while choosing one priority for the next block.

Plan around your real week

Choose training days and session lengths you can usually maintain. Select movements that suit your experience, equipment and current capacity. A small plan completed consistently gives you more information than an ambitious plan repeatedly abandoned.

Keep a useful log

Record the exercise, load or difficulty, repetitions and anything that changed the session. Use comparable conditions when judging progress. More weight with a shorter movement is not automatically the same improvement as more weight on the original task.

Support the work

Organise ordinary meals, recovery time and sleep. Address persistent pain or concerning symptoms with an appropriate health professional rather than trying to solve them through exercise selection alone.

Decide when support would help

You may want help selecting exercises, learning the movements or adapting around a difficult schedule. Online coaching and face-to-face support offer different ways to work through those decisions.

Use the coaching enquiry to describe your goal, current routine and preferred format. A useful first conversation should establish what you need and whether the service is a suitable fit.