Practical advice for 2026

2026 has begun so it’s about time to get going with your health and fitness goals and lock in for the year ahead.

In this blog, I’m going to cover a handful of tips and tricks which I myself use to stay on track with my health, fitness, and general lifestyle. All of this content is also found in our full Camp Kaizen Lifestyle and Nutrition Playbook, which you can access for free once signed up for a camp.

Consistency beats intensity and discipline beats motivation every time

You do not need perfect weeks to make progress. You need enough good weeks, stacked together over time. Missing a session does not undo your progress – abandoning the routine does. Focus on showing up regularly, even when motivation is low.

We all know what it feels like to jump out of bed at the start of January feeling extremely motivated for the proposition of the year ahead. We also know how it feels when February hits, it’s still dark and cold, and getting out of bed for that 60-minute run no longer feels as easy. This is why discipline must be the anchor of your 2026 training and lifestyle, rather than motivation alone. Motivation is great, but alone it won’t get you to your goals. Having a clear target to aim for, whether it’s a Camp Kaizen weekend or another fitness event, will give you something tangible to work towards, and from this you can reverse engineer your training and lifestyle to hold yourself accountable with daily disciplined habits. Each tick in the box brings you closer to your goal.

Top tip - sign up for a Camp Kaizen, use this as an anchor for your fitness, and hold yourself accountable all year round.

Listen to your body - it’s often right

At Camp Kaizen, we are all about lifelong, sustainable habits.

Feeling hungry? Eat

Feeling overly tired or fatigued? Sleep

Feeling sore? Pull back on your training

Feel like going to meet some mates on a Friday night for a catch up and a drink? Do it.

Kaizen is the philosophy of life-long self-improvement.

Sustainable practices need to be built into the fabric of our very being.

Listening to your body and respecting its signals is essential.

The key pillars of recovery

We hope that you will be targeting some big training weeks in 2026. Keep the following recovery protocols at the forefront of your mind, and you won’t go too far wrong:

• Sleep - 7+ hour per night. Top tip - GET TIRED by training in the day so you can sleep at night.

• Nutrition - Food is fuel. Prioritise whole food sources and staying hydrated at all times, even if that does mean a litre of H20 straight after waking up.

• Stress Management - limit stress by understanding the root cause and cutting it off at source.

Plan, plan, plan

Plan your training for the week.

Plan your food for the week.

Plan your social events for the week. Top tip - it’s nice to have things outside of simply training to look forward to!

Your weekly plans don’t need to be in hour-by-hour detail. Instead, simply a framework to follow will suffice. Some people will want more detail than others and that’s fine.

Build a training tracking document

This can be on word, excel, or on paper. I personally prefer excel.

This not only holds you accountable to your training, but also provides a visual representation of the compounding effect of your exercise over time, helping boost your confidence in your fitness levels ahead of your camp of fitness event.

Want more?

Enquire directly for personal programmes (team@campkaizen.co.uk), or sign up to a 2026 camp to receive our full training, lifestyle, and nutrition playbooks for free.

See you in 2026!

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