Ok, so tax time is rapidly approaching and as a result, a lot of folks are stressed out. Like the flu, it comes around once a year and it almost always seems to get put off until the last minute. You swear that you’ll never do it again, but lo and behold, it’s the last minute tax crunch. Unfortunately, working out is not like taxes because it’s not something that you can get away with cramming in at the last minute and only focusing on once per year.
Sporadic workouts done with great intensity are a surefire way to end up with an injury in addition to mediocre health and fitness results.
So what’s the solution?
A personal trainer, better work out program, plyometrics, periodic training or maybe better exercise equipment?
While all of those things can help, the key is consistency. No matter how great your plan, club or training is, it can be quickly undermined by inconsistency of working out. One month of working out, followed by eleven months of sitting on your butt always spells disaster no matter how you might try to sugar coat it.
Now, the first key to being consistent is to train yourself to enjoy the process of exercising. On the other hand, enjoying doing your taxes is a stretch but enjoying working out is possible. So if you want the results working out can bring you, it’s going to have to become a habit just like tying your shoes or brushing your teeth. You don’t have to love doing it, but you better make sure you don’t hate it.
What’s the first step to turn working out into a habit is realizing that working out needs to be habit? Understanding that it’s not just an inconvenience you push through to finally allow you to fit into those one size smaller jeans.
In order to healthy and to keep your body running in its prime, you are going to have to maintain some type of consistent workout plan and the good news is that you get to choose the plan. Knowing that working out is something you need to be doing the rest of your life, why don’t you make it enjoyable?
Amazingly, there’s also a very powerful physiological effect that happens when you turn working out into a habit. By committing to the new healthier lifestyle, you start to remove internal sabotage. If you are fighting to get to the gym and doing a work out you hate just to lose weight or get to a fitness level,you’ll always have that voice of doubt in the back of your head. Every day you’ll have to fight that voice and, unfortunately, it will eventually win.
Understand that by committing to working out consistently, the voice of doubt eventually disappears. No longer are you on a frenzied rush to get to that perfect fitness goal. Instead, you’re committed to working out and enjoying the process which eventually also brings you that fitness goal.
Before you realize it, not working out will feel strange and oftentimes bad. You’ll soon crave the consistency of taking the steps that makes your body feel great. No longer will working out be a “have to”. Instead, it will become a “get to.”
The simple act of following a consistent workout plan will soon become the habit and the target of that plan, will be the goal you are striving for.
Whether you achieve your goal, have a set back, or decide on a different goal, your underlying motivation of consistently following a workout plan will never change. This fact allows consistently working out to become a habit, even though, the specifics of what you do, changes.
it’s a fact that you have to work out consistently to keep you body running at its best and you have to do taxes. You might not like taxes, but if you make working out a habit you enjoy, you’ll end up keeping it the rest of your life.
Begin now, today, to make the changes necessary to start living the life that you want and deserve!
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