STAYING MOTIVATED
The Top Ten Ways to Stick to Your Exercise Plan
Congratulations on your decision to live a healthier lifestyle. So you’ve started your exercise program but you need a little extra help staying motivated? Here are a few tips:
1) Based on the feedback from out members, having a friend, family member or co-worker as a exercise buddy provides great support helps to keep you motivated … and so will the guilt of standing them up.
2) Make a bet with a friend. Placing a money wager that you will hit your goal by a certain date makes every workout count. It also puts your honor on the line.
3) Share the news… Tell everyone you know about your fitness goals. That way, you that many more people to answer to.
4) Buy yourself new exercise clothes, sneakers, or a workout bag. Not wanting new/or expensive equipment to go to waste will make you more apt to get off the couch and use it.
5) Join a gym that you pass by everyday – perhaps on the road between your home and work. Seeing it regularly will eventually draw you in there to train.
6) Get on a professionally designed, long-term program. The sooner you start seeing real results, the more you’ll want to keep training to continue them. Aimlessly hopping from workout to workout – or even worse from machine to machine will only waste your time.
7) Join a Group Exercise Class. The camaraderie you develop with your classmates should be enough to keep you coming back.
Buy an iPod or portable CD player that you can take to the gym. Associating your workouts with fun music or escapism will make you not want to miss them
9) Keep a workout log recording your progress from session to session (or lack thereof) will show you what you’re doing right and what you are doing wrong.
10) Put a picture of your family or loved ones in your gym bag. It will remind you who you want to be healthy for.
Get the motivation you need
If you feel like you’ve hit a wall and just don’t know how to get around it, consider employing some of the above suggestions or hiring a personal trainer at our Woodmere gym to help you stay motivated. A Woodmere gym expert can evaluate your current fitness program and revise it in order to help you get over the hump. Sometimes all we need is another person’s point of view to help us push through and think of ways to vary the fitness routine that we hadn’t though of ourselves, and the best choice is a professional that can make sure you make safe changes that will put you back on the path of reaching your goal.
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