TAKE BABY STEPS
The words baby steps refer to the mind-set you should have when following a fitness lifestyle, especially when you’re first starting out. Too many people think the only way they’ll be successful and get the body they want is if they do everything all at once—exercise every day or go from fast-food burgers and fries to chicken breast and vegetables overnight. Just thinking about these drastic changes is overwhelming, and it causes most people to throw up their hands and quit their fitness programs before they even get started.
Instead, you should look at fitness as a lifelong journey and make an effort to think of improving one thing or doing one thing better fitness wise each day. Do that every morning when you wake up, and by the end of a month you’ll be 30 times better. One day you may say, “I’m going to do 100 stomach crunches today.” Be specific. The next day you might look at your diet and eliminate one or two high-fat, high-sugar foods you normally eat. The specifics don’t matter. What matters is that you improve yourself and your fitness program each and every day. When you do that it becomes self-motivating. You see the positive changes and you want more, and things that would have seemed impossible at the beginning of the month will now seem easy and natural.
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[...] Original post by MeDiCaLGeeK - Best Medical Community [...]
So true Bryan. Improving your fitness is a lifelong process. You can’t make the complete switch in just one moment.
I took months adding to and changing my exercise routine and probably even longer improving my diet. It wasn’t that bad in the first place but I’ve slowly added more vegetables to my meals and learned how to cook healthier food over the last year or so.
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