How to Stay Motivated In Keeping Fit

By Alan Tii

Staying focus and determined in is one of the most important criteria towards keeping fit. People often give up halfway towards keeping fit when they lost focus and determination. At times like this, we will need to give ourselves that additional motivational force to encourage ourselves to be back on the right track once again.

With that in mind, I present you the top fitness tips used by most trainers to keep them motivated all the time:

1) Find a partner

Find someone who has the same burning passion as you towards fitness to be your fitness and diet partner. Give positive encourage to each other along the way. In this way, you won't give up too easily towards reaching your goal.

2) Set your goals

Set realistic goals that can be achieved in a certain time frame. Your goal can be ranging from simple goals like reduce carbohydrates intake for 1 month to more difficult goals like keeping to your fitness diet for 1 month. Many often give up halfway due to lack of goal setting. They often find themselves training aimlessly and overtime, they will lose motivation towards working out and give up.

3) Treat yourself

After you have achieved a certain goal within your stipulated time frame, reward yourself .Buy yourself a new pair of running shoes. Pamper yourself for that day by treating yourself a sumptuous meal of your favorite food. If you have been following religiously to your fitness diet all the while, a day of self-indulgence won't do serious harm to your body. However, restrict yourself to only one day and leave your next happy moments for your next reward day.

4) Take a Break

Feeling tired and exhausted from your workouts? Well, give your muscles a break then! Your muscles need to rest in order for them to grow significantly. Improvements in strength and fitness will only occur during the rest period after your hard training. This resting process takes at least 12-24 hours to complete. If sufficient rest is not given to your muscles, then complete regeneration cannot occur.

5) Music

Equip yourself with a portable music player and immerse yourself in your favorite music. But of course, if hard rock music is your favorite genre of music, listening to linkin park's song while working out is definitely not going to be beneficial for you. You will tend to follow the beat of the music and this will seriously affect the momentum of your workouts. Go for smoothing classical music to allow your heart and mind to be at peace while working out.

6) Think positively

The main reason why people often fail in keeping fit is because they always think negatively about working out. Even before starting the workouts, they are already thinking of the tiredness and sweat that the workouts will bring about and this negative thinking will deter them .The end result? They won't even want to start the workout anymore. Yes, working out is tiring and will indeed cause you perspiring like hell. However, the results are definitely worth all the sweat and hard work with you slowly chiseling your body towards a model-like body after every single workout. Therefore, the next time when you are about to start your usual exercise routine, think positively about the workouts. Overtime, you will find working out to be a fun-filling activity rather than a strenuous activity.

7) Take a before picture

Take a picture every now and then to monitor closely how your exercises are helping you to sculpture your body. For example, you could take photos of your body bi-weekly and compare week 1 photos with week 3 photos and so on. If you have been following closely to your effective workout routines and your fitness diet, you should be able to observe visible results to your body every fortnightly. These visible results will keep you stay motivated towards achieving your fitness goal.