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Yourself isn't good enough!

I believe that as human beings, we do better with others to drive us.  I believe we are a creature of competition, camaraderie and overall necessity of friendships. With this idea in mind, I also believe that working out by yourself is limiting your success and hindering you from reaching your fitness goals. If you are doing bench press in the gym, and there is no one to spot you, you are only going to go so heavy.

How do I do this? My schedule doesn't line up with my friends to go to the gym. My friends don't like going to the gym, it's just me. The only reason these question are present is because you have fallen into a gym trap. Stop wasting your money on a box gym to check off the box 'I go to the gym'. Invest in your health, invest in your fitness, and invest in bettering your life. Think about the things you spend money on that aren't helping you better your health, or life. Do you have one? Five different streaming services, expensive latte's every day, eating out every day, etc. If you are serious about living a healthier life, and not just something you tell yourself when you're having a bad day and you want to feel better mentally and physically....invest in yourself.

Below are 3 different ways, at different levels financially to help you jump start, and follow through on a healthier you.

Find a Gym with Group Classes

Group classes are a great way to feed off the energy of others, motivate you to have a healthy competition with a friend and push yourself through a workout. It takes a special kind of person to go lift weights or run and push themselves past their limits. Our minds won't let us. Our minds job is to keep us safe, not hurt ourselves, but there is a grey area between when our mind says stop, and when our bodies break. This is, I believe, what is considered the competitive spirit. When you are looking across the room and your group instructor wants you to hold a squat for 60 seconds and you are 15 seconds in and already want to give up, you look across the room to someone about your age, build and see them going, you are going to say...not today! I'm not going to give up before they do. Your instructor is pushing you to do 5 more after you just gave all you thought you did, but that motivation pushes you to do 3 more than you thought. These are the benefits of group classes. The energy of feeding off of competition.

Find a Gym with Small Group Training

You've been doing group classes for a while, but you are past the need to compare yourself to your friend, and you need more one on one for new exercises, focused on specific areas, but personal training is still a little out of your price range. Small group training is a great way to have a training be more critical of form, where you can improve, and you get a sense of camaraderie. The energy of your friend in a smaller atmosphere makes it easier on those days you don't want to work out, but you want to talk to your friend about that thing you all were talking about last week. It just gives you another reason to stay motivated to show up. People never leave the gym regretting coming in, people regret not going to the gym. Find any way you can to help motivate your mind and trick it to get you to show up.

Find a Personal Trainer

This is the best option, I believe. Nothing can help you more then having one on one time with a trainer. To lay out your goals, your road blocks, learn new exercises, customized meal plans and variations. A person to motivate you and push you when you need to push out those last 5 reps. Someone to keep you accountable for what you eat and you not wanting to tell them when you go in tomorrow that you ate deep fried food and 5000 calories yesterday. Few things work more then being accountable to a person, and also accountable to your bank account. Paying $10 a month is nice, cheap, and easy to not feel guilty if you don't go for a month. Accountability to a trainer you are paying regardless if you show up, but they follow up with you to see why you didn't make it, that is motivation to keep going.

Us as human beings need motivation. We need motivation to wake up, to cook, to do things we don't want to do. Exercise is a discomfort, and you need to do all you can to help yourself push past that discomfort and you can't do that on your own. Figure out what your health is worth. We have no problem going to doctor appointments and paying our co-pays to get some drugs, and follow ups. Starting taking preventative measures, invest in yourself and show yourself what you are worth. You are worth more then $10 a month! If there is anything I can do to help get you going in the right direction, email me, DM me on social media. I want to help!

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