Mental Boosters for Fitness

by Heather Long | More from this Blogger

29 Mar 2006 02:00 PM

The Spring Forward to Action challenge is nearly upon us and it's important for you to take charge of your fitness and exercise. But how do you do that? How do you take on the challenge now when you believe you may have failed in the past? When you have struggled with fitness and exercise before? You do this by developing your own mental boosters for fitness.

I can talk to you all day about the reasons why you should exercise. I can tell you the reasons why you should develop a better sense of fitness in your life. I can even tell you how to do it. But nothing I tell you will have as much effect on you as what you tell yourself. So here's some ways to build mental boosters for your own fitness.

• Write down the benefits of fitness for yourself.
• Write down the costs of not engaging in fitness.
• Visualize how you would feel when you achieve your goals.
• Counter Negative Thoughts like "I never have time" with thoughts like "Other people can and so can I.
• At the end of the day, review all the things you did right.
• Create choices for yourself, the more options you have the more likely you will be to stay fit.
• 4 out of 5 people slip the first time they try to change a behavior, so keep trying, the odds are on your side for every effort you make.

Booster your fitness by making the choices you want to make in the way you want to make them. Your fitness is in your hands. I'll help anyway I can.

Learn more about Heather Long

Heather Long is 35 years old and currently lives in Wylie, Texas. She has been a freelance writer for six years. Her husband and she met while working together at America Online over ten years ago.

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