5 tips to kickstart your 2025 fitness routine
The start of another year is the perfect time to refresh your approach and boost your motivation levels to kickstart your fitness 2025 routine and power towards your goals!
1. Benchmark your fitness
As you start another training cycle, take the time to assess your current strength, fitness, and conditioning. This approach will allow you to plan your training more accurately and track your progress over time.
It is also valuable to review and assess the previous year. What worked? What didn’t? What did you enjoy? What felt like a grind?
Taking the time to assess your previous approach will highlight the important elements that you should carry over into your 2025 plan and identify potential pitfalls and mistakes to avoid making them again.
With an accurate picture of your current capabilities, you can regularly retest yourself to track your progress and ensure your plan delivers results. Regular weigh-ins, time trials, body composition tests, or reviews of your diet diary will provide proof that you are progressing.
2. Get a plan
The best way to make those 2025 goals a reality is to develop a comprehensive plan for the year ahead. Start by defining your goals, whether that is fat loss, muscle gain or increased endurance, and set a timeline. Make sure your goals are realistic and measurable. Then, working backwards, create a plan of action to achieve them in the timeframe you want.
It is advisable to get advice from a professional like a personal trainer, coach or dietitian when formulating your plan to avoid trial and error and ensure you’re following an effective approach from the start.
3. Create systems
Motivation levels will also naturally taper off over time. That means you’ll need other ways to maintain your motivation levels and affirm your commitment at regular intervals.
When your motivation wanes – and it will – what do you have as a backup? The solution is a system as it doesn’t rely on willpower to stick to your plan and achieve your goals.
A system is what you do every day to progress towards your ultimate goal – it’s how you implement better habits in your life. The key is to determine whether, if you completely ignored your goal and focused only on your system, would you still get the results.
When this happens, you make your goals attainable through a change in lifestyle, rather than quick fixes. This enables you to focus on your efforts and the process, rather than focus on the outcome.
4. Get a supplement boost
Add extra impetus to your efforts with a boost from potent ingredients like caffeine and compounds that can enhance performance by raising testosterone levels naturally.
Testosterone, a hormone primarily associated with male development, has been linked to various aspects of motivation and behaviour.
Research suggests that testosterone can increase motivation and drive¹, particularly in goal-oriented and competitive contexts. This could be related to its effects on mood, energy levels, and focus.
Primal Hyper Test is a combination of herbal substances that may assist with physical performance and increasing energy levels, by potentially boosting natural testosterone production.
You can also fire up your drive to hit the gym with purpose by incorporating a high-potency pre-workout product like Primal Pre, which contains a combination of critical ingredients formulated to enhance training and increase performance.
5. Try something new in 2025
If the thought of the same workouts in the same gym doesn’t inspire action, why not train for and attempt something new in 2025? As they say, change is as good as a holiday and a new challenge is a great way to revive waning motivation levels to keep your training interesting.
Hybrid training is a great way to develop the strength and fitness to tackle new challenges and adventures, like taking on a HYROX competition or entering the 2025 CrossFit open for a new challenge.
Conquer your 2025 goals
A combination of self-assessment, goal setting, system building, targeted supplementation, and an adventurous spirit, is the perfect recipe for a truly transformative year for your strength and fitness.
A focus on consistent effort and progress over time is what cultivates lasting results. So, embrace the journey, celebrate your victories, and get ready to conquer your 2025 fitness goals!
References:
- Stanton SJ, Schultheiss OC. The hormonal correlates of implicit power motivation. J Res Pers. 2009 Oct 1;43(5):942. doi: 10.1016/j.jrp.2009.04.001. PMID: 20161646; PMCID: PMC2818294.