Svava Sigbertsdottir is a Personal Trainer with an extensive client base and creator of The Viking Method. BA degree in dance, Fitness Manager and Level 3 Personal Trainer qualification, Yoga Teacher certificate, and diploma in both Nutrition and Sports Nutrition.

According to Svava ” The Viking Method is three-folded. It is about your being and your mentality, training, nutrition.”

5 Weight-loss Tips for Women by the Viking star

In her interview on Women Fitness, the Viking star, Svava Sigbertsdottir shares the top 5 weight-loss tips for women. Here they are for you,

1. Stop focusing on what your body looks like. You are not your body.

Therefore, stop letting your body dictate you; How you feel about yourself, the value you give to yourself, the love you have for yourself. You are so much more than you give yourself credit for. You are strength. You are resilient. You are power. You are fire. You are a joy. You are kind. You are empathetic. You are beautiful. Use your body to bring out these elements of you. Your body is your amazing tool. Use it as such and treat it as such. Train it, take great care of it, love it. But never mistake it for you. Stop lowering the standards for yourself so much that you believe that your whole worth lies in how your body is shaped. You are not your body nor are you your body´s slave. You are the boss. Let’s get you to start acting like it.

Train for your performance. Your actions. The body will follow.

2. Prepare.

Preparing is crucial. Know what you are going to eat, know what you are going to do when you train, know what your goals are, and know where you are going. Planning and preparing gives you that knowledge. And knowledge is power.

Prepare your out meals (work lunches and so on) either 3 days in advance or do it the night before when you are having dinner. Also, know what you are having for your other meals in advance. This makes healthy eating easy. And much more easily doable.

Always have a training plan. Never start your session without knowing what you are going to do. You need to have a program. Otherwise, it is difficult to progress, to last through hard sets, to not give up. Having certain exercises that you have to finish before you can stop, pushes you on.

3. Set training goals.

Each month you must have a training goal. Set out to do a certain amount of full push-ups or sprint at a certain speed or this many burpees in one minute. Anything. And then smash it. Having goals is the same as preparing. It pushes you on. You know where you are going. You can see the mountain top. You just need to focus on going up.

4. Stop weighing yourself.

Muscle is heavier than fat and denser. Therefore you could stay the same weight but still be more toned, with much less body fat percentage, healthier and happier, and you could miss out on all that joy because you haven’t lost any weight. Or heaven forbid, you might have gained some and this could, wrongly so, discourage you. Watch that you are focusing on the right things. This is why it makes no sense to have weight goals instead of training goals. Throw the scales out.

5. Start keeping a check on what you think and say to yourself about yourself.

Negative self-talk is exhausting for your soul and causes physical harm. Literally. Your neurons will re-wire, your cells will re-generate with more stress receptors, and your energy will go down along with your fitness level. Stop bringing harm to yourself.

When you train, the mirror in the Gym is not there for you to negatively judge what you look like. It’s not there for you to constantly shame yourself. It’s not there for you to have a destructive internal dialogue about your body on a loop.

It’s there for you to assess what you are doing, your actions, your posture, your technique. In a positive way. “I should be able to do this better” is a sentence that I want you to take out. Right now, you are doing it to the best of your ability. And that is enough.

And the mirror is also there for pep talk. Quality, trashy, game on pep talk. The mirror is there to help you.

To learn more about Svava Sigbertsdottir and the Viking Method, check out her full interview at https://www.womenfitness.net/svava-sigbertsdottir/.

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