Are You Ready To Revolutionize Your Fitness Journey In 2024?
We’re all familiar with the standard fitness resolutions:
Lose weight
Lift more
Go to the gym
Go to the gym more often
Run a mile
Run a marathon
...the list goes on.
These are all reasonable resolutions, and I wanted to share some additional options for your consideration.
1. Embrace Stretching
Typically we set fitness resolutions for things that tax our bodies, contracting them and making them tight. It would be great to also set a resolution that helps our bodies to release, stretch and relax!
Stretching is overlooked by most people, and yet it yields fantastic results! Not only does stretching help your muscles work more efficiently, you will improve your physical performance and decrease your risk of injuries.
Start with adding just 10 minutes of stretching daily. Film your first session and then your 30 day session and you will see (and feel!) the improvements.
2. Diversify Your Workouts
Love yoga? Try weights! Love marathons? Try pilates! We tend to gravitate to and add more sessions, more time or both to the things we are already doing.
Time to switch it up, get out of your comfort zone and try something new! Working your muscles in different ways will create new and different results like getting to know your body’s strength and limits better, giving your overworked muscles a rest and building up new muscles, and avoiding workout boredom!
3. Fuel with The Right Nutrition
You can’t outrun your fork so if you focus on the gym without focusing on your meals you are doing a disservice to yourself. Creating nutritional changes that support and help your fitness goals will create better results more quickly.
For workouts that are more cardio heavy, higher amounts of carbohydrates are necessary to fuel the muscles during the workout and in recovery whereas strength training will thrive will higher protein intake to repair muscles.
4. Get Community Support
Consider joining a challenge or accountability group. Whether you are self-motivated or need a little prodding from time to time, everyone can benefit from joining a challenge or an accountability group. Challenges are the best type of peer pressure, in that they help you to engage in a community that holds you accountable and creates some friendly competition.
Motivation and inspiration are often reported benefits of belonging to a challenge group. They say we are most like the people who we spend our time with, so if we surround ourselves with a community that has healthy habits and fitness goals, we are more likely to adopt those ourselves. And the truth is, while you are being inspired, you are also inspiring others!
5. Get More Sleep.
Most adults need 7-8 hours of sleep every night, but the average is actually below 7 hours a night. If you can’t fit that many hours into your nightly sleep pattern, try adding a nap in to make up for the remainder of the time you don’t get at night! By getting enough sleep, you allow your body to rest, repair and recover so that your workouts can be even better and stronger!
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