Change Your Mindset About Fitness With These 4 Tips

New year. New you. New body. New mindset?

The way you think about working out is about to change.

I'm going to give you 4 mindset changes you need to make if you want to stick to that New Year's Resolution.

1. Prioritize Health over Fitness

Long term success over short term gains.

So you want to lose 15 pounds. There are many different ways you could lose it. If you're searching
for that short term gain you might do a crash diet, a detox juice or something else you saw your friend from high school advertising on their facebook page that helped them drop 25 pounds in 28 minutes. Yeah, you might lose 15 pounds but you'll probably gain it all back because you never truly changed your ways.

Or. Focus on the process of losing 15 pounds. Creating a routine over habits, cleaning your diet
week by week, averaging 1-2 pounds of weight loss a week. Trusting the process & sticking to the plan will not only help you lose that 15 pounds but keep it off.

2. Consistency over Intensity

Have you ever found yourself about to puke after a workout? Laying on the ground in a puddle
of sweat thinking what the heck just happened? While this type of training may be appealing to certain type of people, most may find this intimidating.

When we try to go to hard in a given workout or a given program we're often left feeling really
tired, really sore, burnt out, or we never want to see a barbell again. I've been there. Thinking every workout should make me want to puke, then I find myself 2 weeks later absolutely dreading going to the gym.

It's going to be so much more beneficial to be in a consistent routine like going to the
gym 3-4 times a week rather then sporadically taking a crazy intense HIIT class.

3. Focus on the Process not the Outcome

Similar to #1. If your main focus is losing that 15 pounds then any small bump or hiccup
in the road is just going to discourage you. You can't just snap your fingers & drop that 15 pounds. You don't have full control of that outcome. There are series of steps you have to make to turn that outcome a reality.

We call those steps: Process Goals.

Process Goals are things like: go to gym 3-4 times a week or running a total of 15 miles
this week. These are things you have total control over & things that are going to help you ultimately reach your desired outcome.

4. Have a Growth Mindset

"I've never been athletic"

"I could never run a mile"

"I've always been overweight"

Sound like you?

Having a fixed mindset is like locking yourself in a box. You'll believe your abilities are
completely fixed, that every thing you can accomplish is based off natural talent rather than hard work. If you keep telling yourself you cannot do something then every time you try you've already established in your head that you won't be able to complete it, therefore you'll never actually accomplish it.

Switching to a growth mindset you'll believe that your abilities can grow with effort & can
actually change with hard work.

You can grow. You can change. You can evolve.

Try implementing these mindset changes 1 by 1 & lets kick 2019's butt!

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