- Fitness Must Become a Strategy - If you want to see optimal results you must make health and fitness a priority, which means changing your current lifestyle. If you haven't achieved your fitness goals then what you are doing is not working. Sorry. You make time for all the other things you have to do (laundry, paying bills, feeding the family), make the time for fitness as well. Make the commitment, visualize what you will look like when you achieve your goals, then stick with it.
- Replace Bad Habits With Good Habits - Really examine what your weaknesses are nutritionally and physically, then try to replace them with good habits. For example, always taking the stairs, bringing a healthy snack to work, etc. Once again, if you aren't satisfied with your current health, then you need to change your habits because it is not working.
- Plan! Plan! Plan! - "Failure to plan for gradual transition will almost always result in binging and a very rapid hard fall 'off the wagon.'" This includes planning when you are eating, what you are eating, and when you are exercising. Once you plan these things out, it is a lot easier to stick with your routine.
- Set Short Term Goals as Well as Long Term - Your body is constantly changing, but it does take time to see results. So set short term goals, such as getting 30 minutes of cardio in, bring a healthy lunch each day, etc. so that they can help to achieve your long term goals.
- Do the Research - Read studies on fitness and nutrition, and not just in fashion/fitness magazines either. Also, understand how to read food labels. Or find a personal trainer who knows about all this information so that he/she can break it down for you.
If you can implement these 5 ideas, you will be off to a great start for the year.
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