Motivation Is Key To Fitness

As stated by b5media’s own Darcie Vany from Fitdarcie.com in a recent comment on Fitness Machine Marketing : “In my experience as a trainer, it’s not the machines you buy that help you lose weight, it’s your motivation and dedication.” I couldn’t agree more.

Ambition: Aspire to climb as high as you can dream.

Motivation is a huge key to getting and staying fit. The problem isn’t so much motivation as is ambition. Unless you’ve been fit your entire life, you’ve said to yourself at one time or another “I want to get fit”. That’s motivation right there. Want being the key word. You want to get fit. You may have even said “I need to get fit”. Honestly, that’s not motivation, that’s simple observation. If you want to get fit then you are already in the right frame of mind. Now you just have to take that motivation and mix it with a little ambition and a lot of dedication and discipline and get that boll rolling!

Some people use the excuse that they don’t have time, but they seem to find the time to watch 4 hours of television every evening. If you have time to watch TV then you have time to get an hour workout in everyday. If you have 15 minute breaks throughout your work day, use them to get a quick exercise in instead of sitting down, shooting the breeze with your co-workers while chomping down the Twinkies. I love Twinkies too, but they stick to you.

Take a look at your lifestyle, maybe even write down you day-to-day activities. Take a hard look at that list and see what kind of changes you could make to start yourself on a path to better fitness. Start with the small things. Sometimes it’s the smallest changes that can make a big difference. Work your way through the list and you may find that by making these changes you are also being more time efficient and can get other things done throughout the day as well.

All it takes a little bit of change.

Image: Sportswall.com