Are You Setting Reasonable Goals?

As Laura Kneedler discusses in her post How to Make Your Fitness Goals Stick, successful goals often share certain attributes. Perhaps the most important characteristic of a goal is that it needs to be realistic. If your goal is not reasonable, you will be setting yourself up to fail. Part of you always knows when [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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
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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Setting Fitness Goals, Then Make Them Work!

Setting Fitness Goals? Running your first marathon for that special charity? Entered a ‘Try a Tri’? Signed up for a long distance bike ride?  These are the kinds of events that often get us motivated to really get focused on getting fit and organizing our training.  You choose your event, get registered, mark it on [...]

Training Partners and Motivation

Motivation to train can sometimes be hard to come by. There is no point in pretending that it will always be easy. Sure, there will be days when the sun is shining outside, and you are itching to get out there and do your workout. That may even be true most days for some trainers, [...]

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