How's Your New Years Resolution To Get Fit Goin'?

Not to be 🥵patronising🥵 or anything but for real, how's your new year's resolution to get fit been? 💪

If your stomach fills with guilt, remembering the promises you didn't keep to yourself to 'go to the gym every morning', 'be able to run 10kms' or 'have a healthier diet', this one is for you.

See, Forbes reported that nearly 80% of people admitted to abandoning their New Year's resolutions by February every year. But you don't need a new years resolution to get you back on the bandwagon! Here's how to maintain your goal of getting fit 🥰

1. Why?

This is simple. Ask yourself, why do I wanna get fit? Maybe it's:

• for your mental health -- less stress, more productivity and energy, better sleep 🌈
• out of physical health necessity 🫁
• to look bomb in clothes 👚
• to be able to compete in a triathlon 🏃
• to feel more confident 🤩

Write it down and return to this whenever you're not motivated. 

2. Now believe it

I've always believed that no matter how good of a runner I am, I'll never be able to run uphill for very long. I say this to people, I say it to myself, and I prove it to myself whenever I go for a jog. I always end up walking if there's an incline (and where I live, they're everywhere).

Just this morning I snapped out of this thought pattern. I went for the same run that I have most mornings and pretended like I was the type of person that could run uphill. Guess who didn't stop once.

Snap out of it like I did! Stop telling yourself that you're not fit! Change the story and fake it 'til you bloody make it... I'm not saying start with the heaviest weights at the gym and then get crushed. Baby steps. But alwaaays question yourself "what would the 'fit' version of myself be doing?" Then do it. Be it. Fake it 'til you make it.

3. Take it small

Goals fail when we put too much pressure on ourselves. 

You don't have to eat 100% clean and cut out everything else cold turkey. Why not still have the pasta you froth but only half a normal serving, with a salad on the side?

You don't have to work out every dang day. Why not start with working out three days a week. Plan a time that you'll normally be able to do it to make it a habit. For me, I love waking up and getting straight into a workout. For you it might be at lunch or after work. When it becomes habitual, it'll honestly feel funny when you don't work out. 

4. Enjoy it

You can run. Walk. Dance. Swim. Join a footy or volleyball team. Do yoga or pilates. You can do it with mates, with your 'rents. You can get a thrill out of doing free trials at every gym around you. (Seriously, this was so fun. I've done spin, barre, reformer pilates and HIIT classes all for free or cheap). Exercise doesn't have to suck! Neither does eating clean!! Get creative in the kitchen and try to find healthy recipes you actually froth (and don't have to block your nose to get down). 

Now go on, it's time to get that resolution back in business. 😉