#7, Set goals,
Setting goals is the first thing that must be done in order to be successful in anything. Your goals should not just be in your head, they should be written down and looked at regularly. Make sure you have long-term goals, 3 to 5 years out and make sure you also have daily and weekly goals. It is a proven fact that writing your goals down and reviewing them has a significantly higher percentage of success then people that do not write down.
#6, Join the best suited gym for your success.
There are so many different types of gyms that you can join these days. There’s group exercising gyms, like CrossFit, Orange Theory, Spinning and several other forms of group exercise facilities, then there are traditional weightlifting gyms and many chains of gyms that are geared towards less serious individuals. Don’t just join the facility that is closest to your home or work, do research on these places, its so easy, visit several places, almost every place will give you a free trial membership, take advantage of these offers and before joining use the facility and see how you adapt. While you’re there speak to some of the people in the class with you, ask them how things are going for them, this should give you a clear understanding of the proper facility for you and if the people working and going to these places are going to help motivate you.
#5, Read what you eat.
This is just logic and common sense. Unfortunately not many people take the time to do this. Depending on your body structure we all need a certain amount of calories, carbohydrates, and fats in our daily nutrition. Take a moment to read the the nutritional value of the foods you put into your mouth. You will be astonished at some of the amounts of fat, sugar and carbohydrates you’re putting into your body on a daily basis, figure out how much proteins, carbohydrates, and calories you should be taking in daily and then look at what you are actually eating and compare the two. I can’t stress the simplicity behind this and also the lack of people that actually take a few moments to do this, this is extremely helpful.
Remember you can never out train a bad diet!
#4, Preparation,
Again this is logic and common sense, Failing to plan is planning to fail, very simple but true words. What happens when we get hungry and we have not prepared anything for our lunch, usually we look for instant gratification, that usually means fast foods, and we all know fast foods are extremely unhealthy. Preparation isn’t just for foods, good preparation is vital for fitness success. When you wake up in the morning you should be thinking about what time you’re going to work out, packing your appropriate clothes for you to work out and knowing ahead of time what your workout is going to be, you don’t want to walk into a gym and say well nobody’s using that machine over there I guess I’ll start on that one. Preparation is also done daily with your meals, you should know everything you’re going to eat and have it prepared to take with you or to come home and cook.
#3, Reinvest in your body.
Think of our bodies like an automobile, if you own an automobile long enough you’re going to have to replace parts and do repairs. Our body is a finally tuned machine, if you do not invest back into it you’re going to have problems, some of them can become lifelong problems. Do stretching, massage, Physical therapy sessions, these are all things that will help you stay healthy and enable you to continue to grow with your workout goals. I have close to a decade worth of fitness knowledge and the one thing I can tell you I know the most is that I’m still learning every day. Take time to read about fitness, go to YouTube and watch videos, seek out fitness seminars that you can attend, if you are not moving forward and learning new things to help you then you’re not going to grow with your fitness goals and knowledge.
#2, Discipline & Passion
Discipline, you need to do these things every day in order to be successful, they are not very difficult if you plan ahead and follow through. Passion, yes passion, when you love what you do you do it better. Therefore it’s very important to join the right facility for your fitness goals. When you have the right mindset all of these things I’m discussing are easy, don’t look at this as difficult embrace your fitness goals and watch them come to reality.
#1, Visually be able to see your progress and success. This is something that’s extremely important. I firmly believe that when you can visually see your results and your progress, that it will motivate you to continue your exercise routine. I also firmly believe that if you do not see these results that it’s just a matter of time before you’re going to fail. Let me explain, when you go in to the gym and do the treadmill, there are five ways to visually track your results. Speed, calories, distance, incline, and time. If you write all five of these down and the next time you go to the gym to do treadmill, you look at what you did and then decide to improve on one of these five things, more often than not what will happen is you will do better in several of these categories but what you will accomplish is progress, when you beat your calories by one, when you do one more minute or increase the speed 1/10 of a mile per hour that is progress and when you have the ability to go back into your notes and review what you have done you can visually see your success and this will keep you motivated to continuing your exercise routine.
So simply put in order to visually see your progress you should be writing everything down that you are doing, take notes of how you feel, are your clothes fitting differently, take time to review and appreciate your accomplishments!
This in my opinion is very important to the success of your long-term fitness goals.
Remember you get out of it what you put into it, there’s no free lunch, however if you set attainable goals, have a plan and follow it through, you will succeed and you’ll inspire many throughout your journey.
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