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5. Brush up Your Diet

5. Brush up Your Diet

Yes, you’re always hearing about which foods are good and bad for you and why you should try out tens of different diets to feel great.

While you don’t need to necessarily enroll on a strict restrictive diet, you do however need to watch the foods you eat everyday.

If you have a regular habit of snacking on Doritos and ordering junk food for dinner, then you’re most likely not going to regularly feel great in your own skin.

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4. Find a Role Model

4. Find a Role Model

Fitness can be tough to maintain over a longer stretch of time, though many people successfully manage to do so.

Whether you’re a beginner who’s intimidated to get started or a regular who’s struggling to keep consistent, looking up to a role model can be your key to fitness motivation.

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2. Find What You Like

2. Find What You Like

You may have the idea that exercise is all about running on a treadmill for 30 minutes to an hour, three times a week, until you’re covered and dripping in sweat.

Let’s face it, the treadmill isn’t exactly the most ecstatic of exercises.

Beneficial? Absolutely, but I don’t blame you...

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When you don’t feel great in your own body, your self-esteem and energy levels usually take a dip to suboptimal levels. The result will be lower to a complete loss of fitness motivation.

Adding plenty of clean healthy foods to

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When you are committed to showing up and have someone waiting for you, you won’t want the embarrassment of having to say sorry for having slept in.

How’s that for fitness motivation?

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Modelling someone in the fitness space, therefore, ticking all the goal boxes you wish to achieve can drive you to keep showing up day in/day out.

By adopting their successful daily habits and routines and applying them directly into your daily schedule, you may find the success formula to ...

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6. Mix it Up

6. Mix it Up

Have you ever noticed that we are creatures of habit?

You may like setting a routine for yourself because you feel comfortable with what is known and familiar to you. That’s because deep down there’s something about uncertainty that scares you.

It’s normal, most humans are uncomfortab...

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3. Seek an Accountability Partner

3. Seek an Accountability Partner

It’s easy to miss or skip a workout when the only person you report to is yourself.

Chances are you’re not so likely to get up at 6am on a cold rainy day to train if you’re nicely snuggled in bed and prone to laziness.

Why? because we’re conditioned to avoid pain if nothing challenges...

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For example, if you’re used to simply jogging everyday for 30 minutes, try to cut it down to 3 times a week and on the other days fit in activities such as weight training, swimming and/or yoga, to name a few.

The choices are endless!

If after a few months that too gets stale, mix t...

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1. Link Exercise to Pleasure

1. Link Exercise to Pleasure

When you hear the word exercise, your mind is most likely going to label it as a painful experience. More so, if you engage in it irregularly.

You see, as humans we are hard wired to seek comfort and avoid pain at all costs.

As you put your body through the stress of exercise, therefo...

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Most of the time, people start exercising without ultimately knowing the emotional reason behind wanting to exercise.

‘I want to lose weight’. Sure, but why do you want to lose weight?

Maybe because you want to feel great or feel strong and healthy in your own body.

Well feel th...

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How many new year’s resolutions did you break every February after promising yourself to stick to an exercise plan?

Well, many reasons can account for breaking your promises to yourself and you’re going to find out 6 ways to find the fitness motivation you need to get you back on track.

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Just like any habit, the more you feel the positive feelings of the goal you want to achieve, the more results you will see. Every time you exercise, your mind will mask out the pain as it brings your fitness goal to the forefront, making exercise a more pleasurable experience.

So clearly s...

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It’s important that you like what you’re doing if you want to find the fitness motivation to really get going.

Your problem may be that you’re simply not aware of the different ways your body can exercise.

Exercise should be fun to begin with. If it isn’t, then you are limiting your...

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Modelling someone in the fitness space, therefore, ticking all the goal boxes you wish to achieve can drive you to keep showing up day in/day out.

By adopting their successful daily habits and routines and applying them directly into your daily schedule, you may find the success formula to ...

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As you get used to one activity, your mind is quick to memorize it and switch on your autopilot function every time you workout. As a result you’re unlikely to experience any new emotional thrill or motivation.

…..And since emotions run life, we need to experience change and uncertainty to...

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Are you struggling to find the motivation to stick to a workout routine? Well, you’re not alone, whether you’re drained from a job, exhausted with a newborn, intimidated to start or outright lazy, the truth is motivation is easily lost when life gets tough or you don’t work at it on a regular basis.

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