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Are You Bored With Your Fitness Routine?
By Anne Keckler | April 22, 2008
This is the time of year when many of the New Years’ Resolutioners have already given up and quit going to the gym, exercising, or dieting. Maybe you’re thinking of doing the same, or you haven’t been to the gym for a couple of weeks, and you’re wondering how the rest of us keep going week after week, year after year.
Here are some tips to keep yourself motivated and interested in your fitness improvement program:
- Change what you’re doing
- Set a specific goal
- Train for an event
- Keep a journal
- Look at your “before” photos
- Look at before and after photos of others
- Watch videos of others doing physical things that impress you
- Remember how great you felt the last time you worked out
- Think about how you want to look three to six months from now and concentrate on what it will take to get there
- Hire a trainer, or find a training partner
- Make it easy to stick to your guns. Keep your gym bag packed and ready to go and keep healthy, easy-to-prepare foods in the house.
- Just do it!
What do you do to fight boredom? How do you keep going when you want to give up?
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Related posts:
- How to Choose a Personal Trainer
- What Is Fitness?
- 25 Fitness Myths, Part 2
- Coming Back After a Long Layoff
- 25 Fitness Myths, Part 1
Topics: Exercise, Motivation, Nutrition | 3 Comments »
April 23rd, 2008 at 12:58 pm
I use the “think of how you want to look in 3-6 months” method, along with the mentality of “If I don’t do this, I’ll look and feel terrible”. I also try to think of how I used to look, and how what I’ve done so far has made a very noticable difference.
April 25th, 2008 at 12:51 pm
it is funny how OBVIOUS number one is and yet how so few of us do it (waves hand in recognition)…we quit first
for me it’s simple.
I dont stop working out because Im 39 and have a 2 year old.
June 25th, 2008 at 12:43 pm
come back!