Svava Sigbertsdottir is a Personal Trainer with an extensive client base and creator of the Viking Method. BA in dance, Fitness Manager and Level 3 Personal Trainer, Yoga Teacher certificate and diploma in both Nutrition and Sports Nutrition.
According to Svava “The Viking method is threefold. It’s about your being and your mindset, your training, your diet.”
5 Weight Loss Tips for Women from the Vikings Star
In her interview with Women Fitness, Vikings star Svava Sigbertsdottir shares her top 5 weight loss tips for women. Here it is for you,
- Stop focusing on how your body looks. You are not your body.
So stop letting your body dictate you. How you feel about yourself, the value you place on yourself, the love you have for yourself. You are so much more than you believe yourself to be. You are a force. You are resilient. You are a force. You are fire. You are fine. You are kind. You are compassionate. You are beautiful. Use your body to show off these parts of you. Your body is your amazing tool. Use it as such and treat it as such. Train it, take good care of it, love it. But never mistake it for you. Stop lowering your standards for yourself so much that you think all of your worth lies in how your body shapes up. You are not your body nor are you a slave to your body. You are the boss. Let’s get you to start behaving like it.
Train for your performance. Your actions. The body will follow.
- Prepare.
Preparation is critical. Know what you’re going to eat, know what you’re going to do when you train, know what your goals are, and know where you’re going. Planning and preparation gives you this knowledge. And knowledge is power.
Prepare your meals (work lunches and so on) either 3 days in advance or do it the night before when you will be having dinner. Also, know in advance what you are eating for your other meals. This makes healthy eating easy. And much easier to do.
Always have a workout plan. Never start your session without knowing what you are going to do. You have to have a schedule. Otherwise, it’s hard to move forward, endure hard sets, not give up. Doing certain exercises that you have to complete before you can stop pushes you.
- Set training goals.
Each month you should have a training goal. Start doing a certain number of full push-ups or sprints at a certain speed or so many burpees in one minute. Anything. And then break it. Having goals is the same as preparation. He pushes you. You know where you’re going. You can see the top of the mountain. You just have to focus on climbing.
- Stop weighing yourself.
Muscle is heavier than fat and denser. So you could stay the same weight, but still be toned, with a lot less body fat, healthier and happier, and you could lose all that joy because you haven’t lost weight. Or heaven forbid, you might have won and that could, wrongly, discourage you. Make sure you focus on the right things. This is why it makes no sense to have weight goals instead of workout goals. Throw the scale out.
- Start watching what you think and say to yourself about yourself.
Negative self-talk is draining on your soul and physically damaging. Literally. Your neurons will rewire, your cells will regenerate with more stress receptors, and your energy will drop along with your fitness level. Stop hurting yourself.
When you work out, the gym mirror isn’t there to judge how you look. It’s not there to constantly embarrass you. It’s not there to have a destructive internal dialogue about your body on a loop.
It is there to evaluate what you are doing, your actions, your attitude, your technique. In a positive way. “I could do better” is a sentence I want you to make. Right now, you’re doing the best you can. And that’s enough.
And the mirror is also there for conversation. Quality, rubbish, pep talk game. The mirror is there to help you.
To learn more about Svava Sigbertsdottir and the Viking Method, see her full interview at
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