New Year’s Resolutions motivate many to make commitments to exercise. Fitness centers will have many people with great intentions during the first week of January. Sadly, within a few short weeks after New Year’s Day, fitness center visits begin to decline.
Fitness Strategy for the Long-Haul
Want an easy way to stay off the fitness commitment dropout rolls? Here’s a simple tip that could double your workouts this year. The key to long-term fitness training is to know that motivation levels come and go.
The one day that you decide to miss could be the last workout for a year. Long-term training is not a physical issue; it is a mental one. I have a mental practice that I use to help me through the tough days when I do not feel like training. It’s simple – I don’t decide to miss a workout until I first change into my training clothes.
If I decide to miss a workout, that’s okay (sometimes it’s unavoidable), but I always make an effort to change clothes first. Just changing into training clothes is enough to get me started most of the time. Once activated, this typically becomes the best workout of the week!
Why People Stop Exercising
Never have I met anyone who made a conscious decision to stop exercising. On the contrary, everyone who has stopped exercising began by “missing once.”
That one miss led to another, then another. The key to long-term training is to understand the mental risk of missing “one workout.”
I can’t overemphasize the importance of mentally making an issue of missing “one workout.”
Missing one workout will not hurt you physically. Mentally, however, missing a workout permanently breaks the habit of training – until you do the next exercise.
The Take Home
When deciding to miss a workout, make a mental note that you just decided to “stop training permanently”. . . until you have completed the next exercise.
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