, Chicago-based certified personal trainer, tells SELF. People either believe that they have to do a workout exactly how they imagined it—a full 60-minutes of high-intensity work at 6 A.M., for example—and if any element of that plan falls apart , they’ll throw in the towel completely.
So while it’s good to have some structure to your workout plan, when things don’t go exactly according to said structure, instead of believing that you’ve blown your workout for the day, do as much as you can anyway—even if that’s only 10 or 5 minutes,“Ten minutes is better than five, and five minutes is better than zero,” he explains. With this mind-set, “it’s not about having a perfect workout every single time,” says Clancy. “It’s not a failure if you didn’t hit every target.