With the start of the new year, many of us have made resolutions to improve our health and fitness.
While it's great to have specific health and fitness goals in mind, people often go to extremes to achieve these goals.
They try the latest fad diet or workout trend and often end up depleting their mental and physical energy.
This usually leads to giving up altogether or reaching those goals without being able to maintain them, which results in burnout, failure or injury. That's why I suggest you give up extreme and unrealistic goals and change your lifestyle.
When you begin to view health and fitness as a lifestyle rather than a part-time hobby or 30-day challenge, you develop behaviors that will improve many aspects of your life.
A healthy lifestyle can inspire creativity and teach you discipline, adaptability, and balance, which will not only help you look and feel your best, but also show a better version of yourself to the people who really matter in your life.
IT'S MORE THAN A QUESTION OF AESTHETICS
Health and fitness are about more than what you look like, what foods you eat, or how much weight you lift at the gym.
These are:
- the way you feel.
- your quality of life
- the concentration you have at work
- your ability to move.
- your psychological state.
When you're really healthy, you're in a better mood and you can physically do more.
You can do things like walk your dog, go hiking, or windsurf. Not being able to do these things can have a huge impact on your experiences and limit your quality of life.
SET AN EXAMPLE
When you choose to live a healthy lifestyle, you are not only doing yourself a favor, but also those around you.
You’re not only doing yourself a favor, but you’re also setting a great example for everyone around you. Your friends, family, and children are influenced by the healthy choices you make and often feel inspired to make changes in their own lives.
The result is better relationships, a lower risk of disease, and an overall healthier and happier world.
By simply doing
healthier choices, you can have a ripple effect on everyone around you.
Be the person who makes the change.
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YOU LEARN HOW TO CHANGE YOUR BEHAVIOR SPECIFICALLY
I find that "diets" or "workout challenges" only last so long.
It is not realistic to want to go at 100 km/h all the time. We are all
humans. Life happens, stress comes and goes, and schedules can get messed up.
When we choose to live a healthy lifestyle, we learn to accept these things and ADAPT .
You learn to enjoy life when you're on vacation and away from your gym and kitchen because you've developed the habits and skills to lead a healthy lifestyle no matter what the situation.
By always practicing moderation and balance, you allow yourself to indulge without going to excess.
If you don't have access to a gym one week, you get into the habit of moving around with your resistance bands, creating a bodyweight circuit, or using nearby benches and stairs to work out.
You learn to adapt instead of self-destructing when your routine is disrupted.
Of course, people get results from extreme dieting or
by participating in workout challenges. However, the percentage of people who follow these plans is tiny.
These challenges are often completed in a short period of time and come with strict guidelines for success and failure, which is not good for physical and emotional health.
When you set extreme goals, you are more likely to
of feeling defeated if you “fail.” When expectations aren’t as intense, you’re more likely to stay consistent and enjoy your journey.
You don't put pressure on yourself to be perfect. If you eat something "bad" or skip a workout, you wake up the next day and get back on track because it's now part of your lifestyle.
This approach is much easier to achieve and leads to more consistency in the long term.
Here are some tips for making health and fitness a lifestyle starting today.
1. FIND AN EXERCISE YOU ENJOY
This is an important point when it comes to staying consistent with your workouts. If you continually do exercises you don’t enjoy and they leave you physically and emotionally drained, it won’t last long.
It's best to find exercises that feel good to you and that you can stick with long-term, even if they aren't the most intense.
Regular low intensity exercise will always beat irregular high intensity exercise.
2. BE PATIENT WHEN IT COMES TO ACHIEVING YOUR PHYSICAL GOALS.
- Remember that results take time.
- Be kind to yourself.
- Nothing good comes easy.
- Learn to love the process and the person you will become along the journey.
3. DON’T GIVE UP THE FOODS YOU LOVE
I'm a big believer in never giving up the foods you love. Find a way to make your favorite foods healthier.
If pizza is your favorite food, don't give it up. You'll feel deprived. Be creative and use clean ingredients to make your healthy version.
4. DON'T COMPETE WITH ANYONE
This is your life and your journey. No two people are the same, so you should never compare yourself to others. As long as you wake up every day trying to be better than you were yesterday, you are on the right track.
on the right track.
5. TRY NEW THINGS
Get out of your comfort zone. Try a new fitness class with a friend and discover new foods.
Shopping for seasonal produce is an easy way to start experimenting with different foods and exposing yourself to a wide variety of fruits and vegetables.
If you've never meal prepped before, give it a try!
By stepping out of your comfort zone and changing things up, you will stay interested and motivated and inspired to make this way of living a permanent lifestyle.
Why is fitness a lifestyle?
5 Reasons Why You Should Adopt a Fitness Lifestyle
Few decisions in life can match the impact of bringing health and fitness into the fray. The benefits go far beyond the aesthetic improvements that attract so many people in the first place.
A fitness-focused lifestyle can help combat anxiety and depression, provide a diet for the aimless, boost self-esteem and accomplishment, and yes, it can also help you lose weight, build muscle, and improve your human performance.
Below are five unusual reasons to adopt fitness into your life.
1. The Epiphany of Control
As you commit to your fitness program, you begin to see your body change over time.
You will lose weight and your muscles will grow. Your brain will begin to register that your efforts are correlated with a positive outcome.
Consistent application of this method begins to manipulate the plasticity of the brain, subtly strengthening the neural and psychological factors that impact daily life.
You will soon realize that you have control over how your body looks and performs.
Control is therefore a feeling that is no longer desired, but felt. If you can lift weights, run miles, and choose fruit over bagels, then you can do anything.
Fitness gives you the physical, mental and emotional strength to face life. It gives you control.
2. Daily success
Studies have shown that most people's happiness comes from feeling successful in life.
Whether it's climbing the corporate ladder, raising beautiful children, or getting a medal around our neck after a long run, we want to feel like we matter.
Fitness gives us the opportunity to feel successful every day. Going to the gym to lift weights, take a class, or do cardio is a positive decision.
But ditching the gym to run outside, play a sport, go hiking or just play with your kids is just as beneficial.
Your body will obviously benefit from the activity, but your psyche will thrive from the feeling of accomplishment.
3. Better sleep and (probably) longer life
Following a training program will regulate your body's energy systems and have a positive impact on your sleep cycle.
Sleep is when the body's biology repairs itself, so it's imperative to train hard and recover as well.
The extra calorie expenditure during your workout, coupled with the need to recover your muscles, will have you reaching for bed at an earlier hour.
Going to bed earlier will also help you spend more time in REM (rapid eye movement), the period of sleep when the body is most rested.
This improved sleep doesn't just make you feel better at work the next day. Better quality sleep can help prevent everything from depression to stroke.
It can also help maintain a healthy body weight, which results in decreased body fat, increased muscle mass, and a more normal metabolism and eating schedule.
4. Improved relationships
Romantic relationships benefit from both partners engaging in activities that enhance themselves, the family as a whole, and ensure the health and well-being of each individual.
A fitness-driven lifestyle can accomplish all of these things, especially when shared by both partners.
It's not just about reshaping your body to attract your partner, although there's nothing wrong with making yourself desirable to the one you love.
The biggest benefit is the mutual understanding that you are both trying to improve yourselves for the sake of yourself and your partner.
Going for a long run in the park, lifting weights, or sitting next to each other on a yoga mat is a declaration that you're in this together.
You both commit to being the best version of yourself in order to strengthen your body and your relationship.
Are you currently single?
Don't worry, because studies have shown that exercising regularly not only boosts your body shape, but also your self-confidence.
You will develop a different aura that will attract people to you, and help you keep their interest.
5. Increased physical resilience
Aches and pains are not a necessary complication of aging.
You certainly won't feel like you're twenty-five, but you shouldn't suffer just because there's a number greater than four in front of your age.
Regular training can improve the resilience of all tissues in the body. Muscles, tendons, nerves and even bones benefit from regular strength training exercises.
The heart, lungs, brain and metabolism benefit enormously from cardiovascular programs.
Lifting weights can help prevent osteoporosis and osteopenia, as well as strengthen muscles and tendons to resist injuries that may occur in everyday life.
Frequent training can increase neuromuscular coordination, which is important for balance and movement skills, both of which are essential for preventing falls and injuries.
Cardiovascular training can help prevent heart disease, obesity, high blood pressure and other conditions that lead to medication and reduced quality of life.
The adaptations your body makes as a result of training will better prepare it for life itself.
A healthy lifestyle goes far beyond just burning calories and building muscle.
It's about fostering the opportunity to develop your body physically, mentally and emotionally. Embrace this lifestyle and enjoy the evolution!
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