Tips To Help You Reach Your Fitness Goals For Your Better Health

Reach Your Fitness Goals Tips

 Our last blog post this month continues to share ideas on the topic of Energy and Vitality. If you want to read this months blog posts here is the link to Energy/Vitality Month

We know today without a doubt that exercise is good for the body, mind and spirit therefore good for energy/vitality. Getting and staying fit helps the body, the mind stay strong and vital for a lifetime.

We know that it is worth the effort to find your WHY and begin to move well each and every day.
“Only by using the body, you can keep it well.” - “The more you use it the better it gets.” – Sadhguru

One of the most effective ways to achieve your fitness goals is, to begin with knowing your WHY! It really does start here, and it really is that SIMPLE! And sometimes if it sounds simple, we make it hard and unachievable!

So, let us help you begin here with the simple question:

• “Why do you want to gain your health/fitness?”
• What drives you to succeed at this goal?
• How will it feel for you to achieve better health/fitness?

Write this down and really feel it! See it all in your mind how it will feel once you achieve your desired health and fitness goals.

Once you do that then gain the knowledge you need to have success with this goal and find support from people who are around you or find NEW people to support you.

I must tell you I enjoy many different ways to exercise and lift weights. I have for years now, however, there was a time when I was afraid to walk into a gym to get a membership. You see, I was 100 pounds overweight, felt horrible most of the time and it felt like I didn’t fit in going to the gym. Crazy, right? And yet when I finally did step into the gym and began the journey of lifting weights I was hooked.

“One of the simplest things about health is just to use the body.” - Sadhguru And – “If you sufficiently use the body, the body has everything to create health for itself.” - Sadhguru

So, when you’re moving well, exercising and lifting weights, there are many different important factors that will impact the outcome of your training. There’s the program you pick, there’s your dedication to the training practice/habit and there’s the amount of time you dedicate to it.
Yet as we wrote earlier in this post the most important is WHY do you want to begin to get fit? We wrote about finding your WHY here - Implement The 5 Whys Method To Energize Your Best Life - https://wendybottrell.weebly.com/blog/implement-the-5-whys-method-to-energize-your-best-life

And, one of the most important factors of all and something that often gets overlooked, is the importance of your thoughts and mindset about your fitness.

There are many reasons why how we think is critical in achieving our desired outcomes, check it out -

Don’t’ Make Your Fitness A Chore - Often you hear people talking about training as though it were a challenge or a chore. They talk about how crucial it is to have the ‘will’ to train and to force yourself out of the bed every day, even when you don’t want to. They talk about ‘no pain, no gain’ and ‘eye of the tiger’.

And that’s all good and well – the drive will certainly help you to get to the workout and commit to your training program. But do you know what’s even better?

𝐓𝐨 𝐚𝐜𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐰𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤𝐨𝐮𝐭. To find ways to move your body that bring you complete joy. Whether it be lifting weights, kettlebells, bodyweight, yoga, Pilates or martial art.

We believe this is how all the most successful athletes feel. This is how Arnold Schwarzenegger describes the feeling. This is what gives you unstoppable inspiration/motivation and drive to achieve your health/fitness goals.

If you’re going to reach this point, then that means you must understand why it is you’re training and what it is that really appeals to you about the idea of working out. That means you must a vision and a goal, and you need to be able to feel completely inspired/motivated by that idea.

Lifting More - Moving Well - Moving Often - This same drive and determination are also what’s going to make your actual workouts all the more effective. That’s because you’ll be able to dig deep to find that part of you that’s capable of lifting more, running further and achieving all that you want out of your training.

And to do this, you need to once again be able to tap into the reason for your training and to remember why it’s worth so much to you.

My WHY has kept me at my training now consistently for over 25 years. MY WHY has kept me on track to see huge improvements to my health and fitness in fact, in my first year at the gym my weight dropped by 100 lbs.

And today at 62-years old I am in better health and better shape today than when I was in my teens. My WHY has created a health and fitness coaching career that has lasted over 30 years now and I am still as passionate today as when I started. It really does start with your vision and your WHY.

This isn’t just a pep talk: it changes the entire way your central nervous system works. When something really matters to you, your body will do more… and all these things will combine together in order to give you more focus and more drive when you’re training.

So, wrapping up what is Your WHY?
What kind of movement do you enjoy?

If you are just beginning or have a desire to make a change in your health and fitness for 2022 and beyond it might be as simple as creating your WHY and getting out to start a walking practice. If this is something you want to consider joining our FREE Walking Challenge Here - https://forms.aweber.com/form/46/118824146.htm

Maybe you have had a desire to find a program to lift weights and are a bit intimidated like I was when I began so many years ago. A bodyweight training program might be the perfect starting place for you.

We will cover all of this and more over the next few weeks.

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