Getting motivated to get fit or stay fit is something we’ve all wanted
to do, right? We get inspired to do something and we attack it with
passion and enthusiasm. Take new years’ commitments to diets and fitness for example. We’re
inspired to make changes in our health and fitness. And we follow through
on it for at least a good period of time. We go to the gym or classes, or
we eat really clean and healthy and don’t drink for a bit, and we see feel good
and maybe even see results. But eventually most of us “fall off the
wagon” and let those habits go to the wayside.
The challenge, we say, is
staying motivated.
Why? What happens?
I hear it from our clients all the time: “Work is just so busy, I just can’t workout outside our sessions”, or “I know I should be eating healthier, but (insert excuse here)”, or “I’m super-stressed...”.
But it isn’t that you are busy. It isn’t that you’re stressed that you aren’t going to the gym. You may have lost a bit of the drive or desire to keep your healthy habits. You can also have that desire to be healthy or do something active and fun and still not follow through. It’s just you haven’t built the habits enough to last you a while. You haven’t made those healthy habits strong enough to withstand your other priorities that pose challenges. It takes work and time - PERSISTENCE - to develop a pattern in your life that you will stick to. Just like learning your first language, an instrument, or how to get to work - you had to learn and practice it. Once you practiced it, it became a habit that you didn’t have to think about. And that’s the goal: to make your healthy habits something easy and effortless that you don’t have to think about.
If you have trouble sticking with your plan, we are here for you. We help keep you accountable and help you develop habits. And we do that by working with you to strategize the best ways for you to develop good habits for the long term, because there are many approaches and strategies but you need the one that works best for you.
The thriveSF Fitness experience
positively encourages a lifelong healthy lifestyle through unique exercise
routines and movement training, physiological and performance assessments,
nutritional guidance, and well-being support.
