Draw Up Your New Year's Fitness Resolution And Stick To It - Amino Z

January 7th, 2013 posted by poch

Do you ever wonder why fitness centres are teeming with people in January but tend to have lower attendance as the months go by?

By all means, this may be an indication of individuals failing to sustain or live up to their New Year?s fitness resolution.

People who belong to this category routinely swear to exercise more, eat healthy food, take workout supplements, sleep more or a combination of these to start the new year. They begin the new year with an intense resolve to work on their fitness goals but eventually get sidetracked.

It?s no wonder most gyms nationwide make a killing during the first quarter of the year but see their sales targets drop drastically during the latter part. ?If not that, obesity figures may tend to skyrocket well after January if people continue to let their health and fitness go by the wayside.

Now, this is not to say you should sign up for a permanent gym membership. Whether it be at the gym or a home fitness centre, you can still become the fit and fab individual you were meant to become.

The trickier part is trying to sustain the momentum of a New Year?s fitness resolution.

A good suggestion here would be motivation by fear. This is simply when you are deathly afraid of something to the point it actually motivates you to do something about it on a consistent basis.

Take the example of cardiovascular disease. If you are afraid of getting afflicted with it, yet your belly fat is starting to accumulate at an alarming rate, what is the use of sitting in the office and at home all day and not doing anything about it?

Post a caricature of an overweight character in your cubicle, for instance. By routinely looking at this picture, your fitness instinct will automatically kick in especially if you are wary of heart disease, stroke and diabetes. It is guaranteed to get you moving and focus on the other fitness intangibles which includes healthy eating and getting sufficient rest.

If motivation by fear won?t do the trick for you, you can always stick to the traditional form. If you look up to someone with a killer body such as Arnold Schwarzenegger or LL Cool J, do something that will take your inspiration to a higher level.?Post a photo of that person so that it will be his or her image you?ll see when you wake up first thing in the morning?a sure-fire way to kickstart your day.

You can also use that photo as a wallpaper or screensaver for your office computer. This will help you get in the right frame of mind even before you begin pumping some serious iron.

Altnernatively, another great way to help you stick to your New Year?s fitness resolution is to chart or keep track of your progress. If you are a woman, have you been wanting to fit into a size 6 or 7 dress? ?Hang that dress in your room and visualise yourself fitting into it.

If you are a man, get yourself a size 31 or 32-inch pair of slacks and visualise a snug fit down the track.

Take appropriate action and stop at nothing until you reach this goal. Write down how many kilograms you lose each week. Jot down the next steps to be taken in order to maintain your fitness level once that goal is reached.

Write down new goals in order to be consistent. Once a certain fitness goal is reached, some people tend to become slack and get carried away.

These are just several ways on how to ratchet up the intensity for your fitness goals this 2013. You may have your own way of motivating yourself to achieve the goals you have drawn up. The key is to never be content with only a few weeks? or months? worth of success.

Make fitness a lifestyle, and your life will change radically for the better.

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