Find your fitness thing.
Not everyone is going to like going to the gym, not everyone likes to run, not everyone likes to play a specific sport, but there is something for everyone. I can’t even begin to express how important it is to find YOUR fitness thing. The gym may not be for you, but dancing might be! Or vice versa. Hunt for something you like to do rather than something you’re obligated to do. This will keep your consistency strong and the chances of you missing a ‘workout’ is much more slim. This brings me to my next point.
Stop using your workout as ‘punishment’
“I’ll work this off at the gym” does that sound like you? So many people use working out as a form to work off their more less healthy choices. If we continue to think of the gym as working something off, consistency will slowly start to disappear. Change your mindset, working out is your time to build you. It’s the time you set aside to take care of yourself. Not to work off something that you shouldn’t have done.
Make Yourself Accountable
This part is almost always forgotten when we start and it is extremely common. When we don’t make ourselves accountable, there is a less chance we stick with completing what we have to do. There are many ways we can help ourselves become accountable. Picking up a workout buddy, hiring a personal trainer or even something as simple as tracking our own progress will make ourselves accountable and will help us gain that habit a lot quicker than we may think.
Make it Convenient
This is the easiest trick in the book to making ourselves accountable and for helping us avoid those excuses that prevent us from reaching our goals. For example, if the gym is on your way back home from work or on your way too work? The only excuse you had from going is yourself. If you pre-pack your meals in advance to make them all easy to grab and go? The only excuse you gave yourself from eating away from your goals is yourself. Temptation for excuses is everywhere, but more time you put at the beginning to make sure things are easy for you to do, the less you fall into your excuses that prevent you from success.