Fitness: Mark Wright shares his top motivation tips to staying fit this winter
If you’ve been searching for an excuse to get fit for winter, then look no further. Whilst the dark nights and the cold mornings may see you resort to your blankets more than it does the benchpress, TV personality and fitness fanatic Mark Wright is going to give you all the motivation you need
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00:00 People that struggle to motivate themselves think that the people they see on Instagram,
00:06 like me, who are training quite a lot, we just really want to do it and we love it and
00:11 we wake up buzzing to train. That's not the case. Nobody enjoys, nobody likes the feeling
00:18 of I'm about to train. People like the feeling of after they train and that's what they need
00:24 to get in their head.
00:25 Settling into the autumn season with chunky knits and fluffy blankets, perhaps the last
00:30 thing on your mind is getting in your protein intake and how many reps you can bench press.
00:35 With over a third of people in the UK agreeing that their fitness journey tends to stall
00:39 as the season begins, why should you be motivated to stay fit this time of year?
00:44 Life's about balance. I'm a massive believer and advocate for balance. It gets to the weekend
00:48 and I'll have a beer or two and I'll eat my takeaways. I'll eat what I want. I'll indulge
00:52 in the foods I want to indulge and when I get to Monday I want to go again. I'm not
00:56 in the gym 24 hours a day, seven days a week. I'll do three sessions, maybe four a week
01:00 and have the other three or four days off. I'll relax on my diet at the weekend. So don't
01:07 get caught up in feeling like you have to be in the gym the whole time because that's
01:10 when it will get upsetting and get a bit depressing. You need to just sort of have that balance.
01:15 But I promise you having the gym and diet balance in your life will make you feel a
01:21 lot happier mentally. A quarter of UK adults have attributed a busy social life in the
01:26 winter months to limiting their time available to work out. 31% of people then blame having
01:31 no holidays booked to their shrinking ambition to get in shape. But what tips has Mark Wright
01:36 got for you? But I always say if I'm doing my work and putting in the work before Christmas,
01:44 I'm already ahead of the game. I'm going to find it so much easier in January. I'm going
01:48 to be that further ahead. It doesn't happen overnight that you know, just to be in the
01:52 shape you want to be doesn't happen overnight. It takes a while. So to get a base leading
01:57 up to Christmas is a great thing. And also when you get to Christmas, you want to relax.
02:01 You want to eat an extra chocolate and an extra takeaway. Yeah, I know. And just know
02:06 that it's tough. You know why you don't want to train because it's cold and whatever. But
02:10 just say to yourself, once I've done it, I'm going to feel amazing. I read once that you
02:14 should eat 2.2 grams of protein for every kilogram you weigh. And that will help you
02:22 gain muscle if that's what you're trying to do. Muscle protein obviously helps muscles
02:28 repair. It's good for bones. It helps you perform better. So just try and eat as much
02:32 of it as you can. Just make sure it's in your diet as well as other good other good foods.
02:37 That's the beauty of training. I think you don't want to be doing the same thing. I'll
02:41 play a bit of paddle tennis, a bit of golf, a bit of football, go for walks with the dogs,
02:45 go for runs outside, go for runs inside, hit workouts inside, weight sessions. I just like
02:50 to do all different forms of exercise. But the way I motivate myself is knowing that
02:55 when it gets to January/February, I'm going to be on the gym bars wanting to get fit for
03:00 the summer because the summer's coming. We all do it. We all want to get summer ready.