5 Reasons Why You Will Fail to Achieve Your Fitness Goals in 2018
It is the new-year time and a lot of us will be coming up with our new-year resolutions. One of the most common new-year resolutions is to get fit and be healthier. Fitnesscenters around the world see a significant increase in traffic at this time of the year. However come February and the traffic starts dropping and eventually gets back to normal levels. More than 90% of the people who start off with a resolution at the new-year end up failing at it. We have prepared a list of 5 top reasons why we fail in our new-year resolution. We hope that by being aware of these reasons you will be better prepared and will end up in the 10% who stay on track with their resolution and eventually achieve success.
1. Not knowing what to do
Most often we realize that we are in bad shape and make a resolution that we will lead a healthy life and get fit. We then decide to start exercising and take up any sort of workout that we feel like. Many of us start running everyday or exercising on elliptical, or go to the gym and perform any sort of exercise that we see others performing in the gym. In the enthusiasm and the desire to get fast results, we start to workout everyday. In the end we either injure ourselves or do not see good results and hence give up and get back to our old habits.
All of this happens because of our own ignorance. Most often people think that getting fit is about performing exercises and eating correctly, however it is a little more complicated than that. We need to be a little more specific about our fitness goals and then choose the right type of workout to attain that goal. A workout regimen for losing fat and for gaining muscles can be very different, which both will be different from the workout for endurance. Not performing the workout suited for our needs and just performing exercises based on what others are performing will only result in disappointment. Sticking to a workout program requires positive reinforcement, where you see good results of your effort. This can only happen if the workout is suited to your fitnessgoals and provides you good results without injuring you.
2 Not setting goals properly
In order to achieve our fitness goals, we first need to define it. Defining the goal is very important if we want to achieve it. Since most of us do not know much about fitness, we come up with a very general goal such as “getting in shape”, or “losing weight” or “get strong”. Since such goals are general, it is difficult to really measure if we are really attaining them or not. The result is after some time we lose interest and get back to our old habits.
A fitness goal must be specific and measurable, which means we need to define exactly what we want to achieve and then measure our progress towards it. An example will be losing 10 pounds… Read More
