It’s the new year, we’re all busy and if your like most people, you’ve already started thinking about giving up on those New Year’s resolutions. So I thought I’d give you 5 quick tips to help make sure you keep up with your fitness resolutions in 2011.
(1.) Workout In The Morning:
I know, I know, you’re not a morning person. Guess what, no one starts out a morning person. Name one teenager who didn’t like to sleep until noon. We adapt and we learn to be a “morning person.” Try it for 3 weeks and after 21 days of getting up early, you’ll be a morning person, believe me. Working out in the morning will help you avoid those last minute meetings that run into your workout time or those impromptu happy hours that the buddies email you about or a client that needs your attention and won’t wait. The morning is your time and the only real time when you can do something for yourself. Get up and get it done.
(2.) Schedule Your Workouts Like You Schedule A Business Meeting
Speaking of meetings, schedule your workouts and stick to them like you do important business meetings. I’m pretty sure that if you knew that performing well in that meeting would earn you a raise or promotion, you wouldn’t blow it off. A study published by the American Journal of Public Health showed a direct correlation to the health of individuals and their level of wealth. So if it’s proven that working out and staying healthy will give you more energy, make you more productive and afford you the opportunity to make more money, why wouldn’t you do it?
(3.) Pack Your Workout Bag The Night Before
I talked about this in a previous blog post titled “Are Early Morning Workouts Stressing You Out?” If you’re following the first 2 tips, you’ll be working out in the morning before work, pack your workout bag at night. It relieves you of the stress of doing it in the morning when you’re tired and it helps you to mentally prepare yourself for the next day’s workout.
(4.) Schedule Your REST Days
Dogs do it best, they rest a lot, and so should we. Schedule your rest days around your workout days and try as hard as you can to stick to them, even when you feel “good” and think you should skip the rest day and get another workout in. These are important rejuvenation days and if you know you have a scheduled rest day coming up you’re more likely to NOT skip a workout day because you “don’t feel like going.”
(5.) Set Weekly Goals
Be descriptive with your fitness goals and set small weekly goals to meet longer-term goals. A bad example of a fitness goal would be “I want to lose weight this year” or “I want to workout more this year”. If you want to workout more this year, set specific goals on how many days each month and each week you want to workout. Don’t get discouraged if for some reason you fall short of your goal. Each week is a new beginning and a new chance to reach your goal. If you have a weight loss goal for the year, again, break it down incrementally into months and weeks so that it doesn’t seem so daunting of a task. Even if you need to lose 50 lbs. in 2012, that’s 1 lb. a week and that’s a realistic goal.
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