Eoin Cremin Fitness

Cruising along nicely 🛳🇹🇷➡️🇬🇷

This transformation didn’t happen because we found a better training plan or some secret fat-loss strategy.

It definitely didn't happen by only staying on track Monday to Friday.

It happened because since early May, he’s been willing to do the things he probably wasn’t doing consistently enough before.
Sometimes that starts with being willing to hear something you don’t necessarily want to hear. Taking constructive criticism from your coach on the chin. Accepting that there are areas you need to improve. Being honest enough with yourself to admit that what you thought you were doing and what you were actually doing weren’t quite the same thing.

Then doing something about it.
- Food prepped.
- Calories tracked accurately.
- Training sessions done.
- Cardio done.
- Nutrition organised even when life gets busy.
- No using a stressful week as a reason to throw everything out the window.
- Most importantly, doing all of that even on the days you don’t feel like it.

Since May, he has completely committed to his deficit and the physical change speaks for itself.

📉 Body fat considerably lower.
👌Abs far more visible.
💪 Shoulders and traps popping.
🏅 A completely different physique.

If you’re looking at a transformation like this wondering what you’re missing, ask yourself some uncomfortable questions.
Are you actually tracking as accurately as you think you are? Are you organised with your food or constantly winging it?
Do you follow the plan when life gets stressful or only when the week is going well? Can you take feedback and act on it, or do you immediately look for an excuse?

Sometimes getting into the shape you want doesn’t require more information. It requires more honesty, more organisation and a willingness to do the things you already know need to be done.

If you’re willing to do that consistently, you might be surprised by how much your body can change in a few months. 👊

Interested in transforming your body this autumn? September places have just opened. Apply now through the link in my bio and select "coaching application" 👌

You can train hard, be consistent in the gym, get your steps in and sleep well.
You can want to change more than anything.
But at some point, you have to address the thing that keeps holding you back:

For you reading this, that’s overeating. You’ve spent years trying to compensate for it by training more, adding cardio, burning more calories and promising yourself that Monday will be different. "I'm going to lock in".. but that lasts only until Friday. The cycle keeps repeating.

Overeat → feel guilty → train harder → restrict → overeat again. And despite putting in a huge amount of effort, physically you’re still in roughly the same place. You are not miles off but you aren't as lean as you feel you could be...

That's the frustrating part.. you might not actually be that far away from the condition you want to be in. You already know how to train hard. You’re willing to put the work in. You probably know what eating well looks like too.

What you’re missing is the structure, accountability and consistency to finally get your nutrition under control. Cutting back on the overeating when you're bored or random take aways just because it's the weekend.
And that means being willing to admit that what you’ve been doing isn’t working.

Are you choosing to stay stuck because changing your habits feels harder than repeating them?
I have 3 coaching slots opening for September for people who recognise themselves in this post and are ready to finally break that cycle.

If that’s you, apply through the coaching application in my bio. Let’s stop trying to out-train the problem and actually address it.

I believe almost everyone is coachable.
But being coachable isn't the same as simply only doing what you're told.

Are you willing to tell your coach when you've had a bad week rather than going quiet? Because that's avoidant behaviour that I've seen over the years and avoiding your issues doesn't solve them.

Can you hear feedback without immediately becoming defensive?
Can you admit when something isn't working, ask questions when you don't understand and have an honest conversation when you disagree?

And equally, can you accept that your coach is human too? They won't always say the perfect thing. They won't get every decision right first time. Sometimes they'll need more information from you before they can help.

Good coaching isn't one person having all the answers and the other blindly following instructions really, it's two people working together to understand what keeps getting in the way, make better decisions and gradually give you the tools to manage those situations yourself.

The sign of good coaching shouldn't be that you can't cope without your coach. It should be that you've learned enough about yourself that, down the line, you can! But if you don't challenge yourself to think and act differently, what was the point in investing in your coach?

If you aren't open to being told you have areas to improve on then you won't change.

If you don't take the actions your coach is recommending, there's no point wondering why you aren't getting results.

If you invest in a coach, let them make the decisions and follow their lead.

One of the things I regularly help my clients with is eating out while trying to lose fat.
And my answer is almost never…
“Don't go.” 😂

Because what's the alternative? Never go for dinner? Avoid birthdays? Skip date nights?
Say no every time your friends make plans?
That's not sustainable.

Instead, we plan for it.
If my client knows they're going out, I want them to tell me so I can help them forward plan.
Where are you going? What's on the menu? What are you thinking of ordering? Are you having drinks?

Then we can manage the rest of the day around it.
Maybe we pull back slightly on carbs and fats earlier in the day. We keep protein high.
We get plenty of fruit and vegetables in.
We stay hydrated. We get our steps in and train if it's already a training day and we leave ourselves some room to actually enjoy the meal.

None of this is about starving yourself all day or doing two hours of cardio because you have dinner booked that evening. It's simply about being prepared.

If your weight is up the next morning? More carbohydrates, sodium, food volume and potentially alcohol can all mean more water and a higher scale weight temporarily.

One meal out isn't a problem but more so it's what happens around that meal and what you do afterwards that matters.
Enjoy your meal. Make sensible choices. Wake up the next day.
Get back to your normal routine.
No guilt. No punishment. No “I'll start again Monday.”

Learning how to navigate eating out while still making progress is a huge part of what I teach my clients because the goal isn't to become really good at dieting it's to become really good at managing your nutrition and still make progress.