Are you working hard to succeed in your workout goals but keep falling short? The answer isn't always pushing yourself harder but working out smarter. Here's how to make the most of your time in the gym.

Focus on Nutrition 

You can spend hours in the gym, but you can't outrun a bad diet. You might burn 300 calories on a light run before work, but if every afternoon meal is the equivalent of a burger, fries, and beer or shake, you're going to undo your process before seeing results.

Enjoy some of your favorite indulgences and clean up the rest of your diet with a healthy balance of lean meats, fruits, veggies, and complex carbohydrates. Getting in enough protein is also crucial to help build and repair muscles.

You can enhance your efforts to build muscle with some supplements, including:

  • Whey Protein - Aids in lean muscle growth and gives your immunity a boost at the same time by helping stimulate functions that break down free radicals
  • BCAA - Also called branched-chain amino acids, BCAAs are essential to help build lean muscle growth and help aid in muscle recovery.
  • Collagen - This essential protein is found in our bones, skin, tendons, teeth, ligaments, and muscles and can help improve your gut biome and restore depleted collagen production.

Set Intrinsic Goals that Motivate You to Succeed

There's nothing wrong with focusing on weight loss or muscle gains, but if they only take the shape of extrinsic goals, they probably aren't sustainable. Extrinsic goals rely on external influences, like wanting to impress someone or look better in a selfie to get more social media traction. Meanwhile, intrinsic motivation come from your passions and values. 

Intrinsic goals are deeply embedded within you and are focused around improving yourself. Your intrinsic fitness goal could include having more energy and improving your self-confidence. You can absolutely want to gain more muscles or drop the pounds, but make sure those goals resonate from within.  

Redefine Fitness

Redefine the concept of fitness as something you enjoy doing, whether swimming a few laps at the community pool or playing tennis with a friend. Fitness is an opportunity to get moving and challenge yourself, not suck you into a gym routine you don't enjoy. If your idea of fitness is a two-hour gym session before work and nothing else will do, you will have trouble sticking to it for the long-run. 

Make a list of your favorite activities and see how you can incorporate more movement-based activities into your week. Making it social can also help you get motivated, like organizing a hike with friends or hitting a fitness class together.

Grab a Quality Pre-Workout Supplement

If you're not feeling it when trying to hit your daily workout, you need WAYT's pre-workout to change your mood, increase energy and performance, and get you feeling amped. Take one scoop of our tasty Juicy Orange or Gummy Candy Pre-Workout to motivate you to reach your daily goals.

Get a Good Support System

Studies show that having an accountability buddy or someone to support you helps you reach your goals faster than without. Whether you work out together or do weekly check-ins, a support person can help you stick to your goals and stay motivated.

We know not everyone has someone in their inner circle to encourage and motivate them, but you can find the community you need with one of WAYT's programs:

Our programs include food lists, sample menus, grocery lists, supplement guides, measurement guides, and a premier coaching program with weekly check-ins with your coach. Your coach helps you stay focused and make tweaks and suggestions about how to push through plateaus or stumbling blocks. As you work your way through our programs, you also gain the confidence to make better food and fitness choices that put you closer to your goals.

Next Steps

Your workouts can be an empowering journey to better health, a leaner physique, and increased energy. But you don't have to do it alone. Are you ready to optimize your workouts, recovery, and overall health? Try adding our fitness programs or supplements to your diet. Start shopping our supplements or comprehensive health programs to pick up organic greens, multivitamins, probiotics, and more today.

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