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Christine Tay • Aug 24, 2020
HOW TO KEEP YOUR MOTIVATION TO EXERCISE
Have you ever tried to do the gym , or a personal trainer, or tried to get fit on your own? And it just hasnt worked?
Here's some tips that'll make things easier for you.
1. Find an exercise you like.
It maybe cycling, swimming, walking, gym or dancing!
2. Find out what sort of environment you like to exercise in.
Is it outdoors, with aircon, with TV s to distract you, in groups or by yourself?
3. Make this a priority in your lifestyle.
Book in a time to do exercise before anything else. And stick to it.Explain it to your family that this is YOUR time.
4. Make it regular.
Twice a week is probably not enough for it to become a regular habit. Think about integrating smaller blocks of time more frequently. Start with 5 times a week .This doable for most people -especially if sometimes you just want the weekend off!
4. If you miss a session , then you have to play catch up.
If you're aiming to do 20 mins per day to start off with and you manage to miss sat & Sunday, then Monday you just press reset and do 1 hour of exercise. What this does is sent the message that you can't do this again, and it will get you feeling great again to keep that motivation going.
5. Get a friend to join you as a work out buddy.
You are MUCH more likely to succeed when you have a gym buddy to go with.
6. Remember the feeling of calm and happiness that you have after your exercise.
Remembering this feeling will help get rid of any little voices in your head that are telling you that you can't be bothered
7. Just have your work out gear ready to go.
I like to do it first thing in the morning, then I don't have to think what to wear!!
After you've been doing it for about 12 weeks it becomes habit and you'll actually start to automatically want to do it.
Hope this helps
Chrissy xxx
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