There’s a growing (awesome) trend in the fitness industry: finding balance when it comes to exercise and nutrition.
Both exercise and your diet should truly enhance your life (that’s right, make it better). Exercise should not control your life and should not make you miserable.
Obviously, many people exercise because they want to lose fat or they want to look better. Sure, exercise helps, but there’s so much more to it than just improving your body composition.
How you know your exercise and nutrition are in balance and are enhancing your life:
You look forward to training.
You look forward to rest days.
You have energy.
You’re getting quality sleep (at least 7-8 hours most nights).
You feel good about yourself and you have some realistic, yet challenging, goals.
Exercise doesn’t have to suck. In fact, it shouldn’t. Your workouts don’t have to take up so much time that you don’t have a social life. Your workouts should feel like a privilege, not a chore.