The new year is here, it is now time to panic and realize that you did not achieve any of your resolutions of 2017 and start coming up with a new list all over again swearing this time you will do it. This time you will succeed.
Admit it guys how many times has the first resolution of the year been be fit and eat healthy? I to had those resolutions so many times at the top of my list every several new year.
I call it the new year bug. In January you are super serious signing up to the gym, running fifty miles each morning and doing yoga in the evening. This is until two days later when you feel like you cannot take it anymore and decide let me just sleep in this one night. One night turns to two until when February arrives you still think you will do it tomorrow.
Let us say no to this in 2018, do not do everything at once and end up ruining everything.
So today I came up with tips to help you stick to your health and fitness plan this new year.
Tip 1
Come up with a plan
This is pretty obvious because you cannot just wake up today and start running, you need a meal plan, you need a fitness plan so that you can commit it to your mind. So that you can prepare your brain before you tackle health issues.
Tip 2
Be realistic
Do not start with a fifty mile run, start slow and start by working out about three times a week if you have never done it before. If you have been working out improve a little bit at time, add fifteen minutes here, knee raises there and soon you shall be off to a great 2018.
Tip 3
Learn proper technique
Pain does not always mean you are doing it more than the other. In 2018 do not hurt yourself.
If you can afford it get a trainer and if you cannot afford it listen to the instructor on those videos you use to workout.
If they say make your head in line with your spine and face the floor directly do it, you might end up twisting something and it will hurt real bad.
Pain is not usually gain.
Tip 4
Start with a warmup and end with a cool down
Before you run, before you go in for a round of cardio kick boxing or just cardio start with a warmup first. This will get you more alert, stretch your muscles and get your body ready for all the things you are going to do. Before you end your sessions go in for at least a 15 minutes cool down. I like to do yoga at this point.
This just brings your body and heart rate down.
The best thing about a warm up and cool down is that it keeps you from getting hurt.
Tip 5
Reward yourself
This is my last tip and my favorite tip, reward yourself. This does not mean that you now dive into your chocolate stash or go for an ice cream run everyday after a workout. Try to find healthy rewards like taking a car to work instead of walking or taking the elevator instead of walking up the stairs. Have cheat days where you reward yourself with one thing that you missed all week. This makes healthy living more fun.
As we go into the new year I wish you a blessing filled new year.
May this be the year for you.
With that I bid you, aloha.
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