Posts Tagged ‘motivation’
This is a re-post of a multi-part series I did over on the Yahoo! Blog about motivation. If you want the ultimate in motivation, there’s still time to join the FitLifeSF 10-Week Challenge!
Welcome back to our series on motivation and finding ways to keep your fitness regime from getting stale. We’ve already talked about ways to mix things up and keep it fresh as well as using goalsetting and progress tracking as motivation tools. Today’s topic is using rewards to keep you moving forward.
This is a re-post of a multi-part series I did over on the Yahoo! Blog about motivation. While most people hit the New Year with loads of it, you want to have the tools in your back pocket for when that motivation might wane. Of course, if you want the ultimate in motivation, join the FitLifeSF 10-Week Challenge, and let’s work with each other to reach our goals!
Last time, we talked about ways to keep your workout fresh as a means of stoking your motivation. Another great way to stay motivated is through setting goals and tracking your progress. Too often, especially once you reach a level of fitness where you aren’t seeing progress in the leaps and bounds you do when you first undertake a healthy lifestyle, it becomes easy to get complacent. Always having a goal on the horizon can help to keep your head in the game.
Here are some ideas to help you use goal setting and tracking your progress as a motivation booster:
This is a re-post of a multi-part series I did over on the Yahoo! Blog about motivation. While most people hit the New Year with loads of it, you want to have the tools in your back pocket for when that motivation might wane. Of course, if you want the ultimate in motivation, join the FitLifeSF 10-Week Challenge, and let’s work with each other to reach our goals!
No matter how dedicated you are to your healthy, fit lifestyle, there are times when your motivation wanes. As the days get shorter and the temps drop, many people find the couch and comfort food beckoning more than salads and sneakers. So, for the next several posts I’m going to outline some tactics for staying motivated, starting with this week’s edict: Keep it Fresh!
You are reading this because you are one of the normal people who wants to get more fit. I say “get more fit,” because some people want to lose weight, some want to add definition, and some of you want to put on muscle mass. All of you want to improve your fitness level, and are looking for that “magical something” to make it happen.
Well, here’s the secret. 99% of you already have what it takes to get more fit. You are reading this, and this shows me you have the desire to make a change. Now we have to make that desire an action, then a habit.