Lose Weight – Overcome All-or-Nothing Thinking: Part 1

When you want to lose weight, developing new fitness habits is a task where many people procrastinate indefinitely. We may intend to sit down and schedule new workout routines, find healthy recipes, create a perfectly balanced meal plan… but somehow it just never happens. Days, weeks, and sometimes months and years go by while these [...]

Lose Weight – Overcome All-or-Nothing Thinking: Part 2

This is the second in our series called ‘Lose Weight – Overcome All-or-Nothing Thinking’. Once you’ve gotten past the first potential all-or-nothing thinking hurdle (discussed in ‘Lose Weight – Overcome All-or-Nothing Thinking:  Part 1′) and are happily on the road to fitness, there may still be other opportunities for all-or-nothing thinking to creep in and [...]

Workout Routines – Add Music For Better Results

Sometimes you have one of “those” workout days. You know the kind. It doesn’t happen every time, but today you’re tired, you’re not looking forward to spending the time on the elliptical trainer, treadmill or the exercise bike, you’re feeling flat, and you have a workout you’re not excited about ahead of you. On these [...]

Fitness Goals – How To Make Your Fitness Goals Stick

Now that I’m back on the weight loss wagon, I must look within to develop the strength and stamina needed to achieve my fitness goals.  Except . . . well . . . what exactly are my goals?   Sure I would love to have a body like Jennifer Anniston’s, only that is not a realistic [...]

Reshape Your Butt Using the Stages of Butting Out – Part 1

If you don’t intrinsically enjoy the thought of, or the activities required for fitness (yet), or if you have an exaggerated view of how long and difficult a process it is, it can seem a little like quitting smoking. You know it is, or would be, better for your health and that, all other things [...]

Reshape Your Butt Using the Stages of Butting Out – Part 2

In my previous post in thgis series (Reshape Your Butt Using the Stages of Butting Out – Part 1), we looked at the first two stages of quitting smoking and how they could be altered and applied to getting fit. In this installment, we will look at the next three stages: Preparation, Action, and Maintenance.
Preparation
In [...]

Secrets to Weight Loss & Fitness Success: Visualizing Your Fat Loss or Fitness Goals

When it comes to weight loss or fitness in general, creating new habits requires motivation, and motivation requires a clear vision of what you’re trying to achieve. If you can’t see the desired end-goal clearly, how will you sustain the efforts it will take to get you to that end? Sure it’s possible through sheer [...]

5 More Reasons to Exercise

We know that exercise helps shed unwanted pounds, maintain a healthy weight, and help our hearts and lungs work more efficiently. Sometimes we get such tunnel vision about these ends that we forget all the other benefits we can get from regular exercise.
If weight maintenance and cardiovascular endurance aren’t motivating you enough to get up [...]

Lose Weight – Overcome All-or-Nothing Thinking: Part 3

This is the third in our series called ‘Lose Weight – Overcome All-or-Nothing Thinking’. Many of us begin our new fitness plans with enthusiasm. Ready for a change, we sometimes feel that we can’t wait a moment longer to see our bodies begin to transform themselves and for the weight to start coming off.
So we [...]

Fitness Goals: Set a Fitness Target to Focus Your Determination

When it comes to Fitness Goals, most of us who subscribe to GetFitFast.com don’t need to be persuaded about the benefits of a healthier lifestyle.  Regular physical exercise and a healthful and nutritious diet are major items that most of us aspire to, but as concepts they are very general.  In order to stay motivated, [...]

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