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The Way We Make Fitness Resolutions Is All Wrong
We rarely achieve our fitness goals
At the beginning of the year, we usually overcommit with our fitness schedule, we hurt ourselves and then never return.
We rarely reach our new year's fitness goals. But not because we don’t try hard enough - quite the opposite. We are going too hard, too fast in January; we burn out and injure ourselves, then we fully quit.
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