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New Year New Me? Keeping Your Fitness Resolution
So relaunch went off without too many hiccups and BUILD by LadyFIT is back for the new year! AND I am intending to keep ALL of my new year’s resolutions to:
- Send you this newsletter every week
- Give you better and more targeted content CONSISTENTLY
- Provide consistency in my business model generally to serve you the best way possible
I am not one for resolutions. I’m an “If you want it, you’ll do it, if you don’t, you won’t do it” kinda person.
So I knew when I made the above in September of last year, I meant it.
I literally brought the new year in typing away on my laptop giddy over Day 1 of my Relaunch – not the usual new year celebration for me, but I couldn’t have imagined celebrating any other way.
But as like most people, I am a bit ANXIOUS. Is it possible to keep this going ALL YEAR? The past 2 months alone I was on autopilot, but can I sustain this all year around? I have other responsibilities, people to take care of, and another job. Can I devote all of my attention to this one thing?
I can relate to resolution woes.
I could not help but notice all the “old” new faces and “new” new faces in my first AfroSoca class of the year. Class was packed! And I was happy. But part of me said, “here’s the same old story…”
Yet who am I to judge? I cannot tell you how many things I have let fall to the wayside including my health time and time again.
I am here to say, amidst all the fitness commercials, trainers, and gimmicks vying for your attention to cut out the noise.
To keep your fitness resolution this year, I give you the following 3 keys:
- Figure out what’s important: Going to the gym 4 days a week may honestly NOT be what’s on the forefront of your mind right now and THAT IS OKAY. You might need to get a new job. A family member may me sick. You may be looking to add to your growing family. Be honest with yourself about your priorities, and see how fitness falls IN LINE with those, not the other way around.
- Re-evaluate your priorities every 3 months: We seem to be able to adjust our schedules and priorities for everything: work, kids, school, family, but NEVER FOR OUR HEALTH. Why is this? Fitness should be just as flexible. Maybe right now you can only do 2 days a week at the gym. Maybe after you finally graduate, you can then do 4. My clients who practice this have great retention. When you’re organizing your schedule, make sure to see where fitness falls in line as I said above. If that’s 100 jumping jacks in your house everyday and that’s it, COMMIT and stay CONSISTENT.
- Stop throwing pity parties: I don’t know about you, but I don’t have time to feel bad about all the time I didn’t spend in the gym or how I ate chocolate all last week (true story – hormones are real). I live in the NOW. What can I change TODAY? When you throw yourself a pity party, you almost always throw off your present and future progress. It tends to go something like, “Well I didn’t go to the gym today, so I might as well eat whatever I want.” That’s how you lose it. Eat the damn cake and move on. YOU STILL HAVE GOALS TO REACH.
Our lives are in constant fluctuation, and fitness is a part of our lives, thus fitness is also in constant fluctuation!
Why do we expect this to be any different? We’re taught to believe if we’re not in the gym 4-5 days a week, we are lazy and not doing something right. Listen, it took me 4 years to get it together, and for some it takes longer. It will come. Be patient with yourself.
I truly hope this helps you stay motivated as you celebrate this Martin Luther King Jr. Day!
As always committed, stay confident, and remember, KEEP BUILDING!
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About the Author:
Kaye Long, Writer and Publisher