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3 Tips To Make Reality Your Fitness Goals

Are you still practicing all the planned activities? Did you start eating as healthy as you promised? How are you doing with your fitness goals? Here are 3 tips to make them a reality.

Getting more exercise, eating well and in the right quantities, having a healthy lifestyle, these are the objectives to be achieved, but keeping the helm of the metaphorical boat is not at all easy, because the unexpected is always around the corner. A small detour is all it takes to trigger a vicious circle in which the guilt you feel after skipping a training session or eating a few extra calories makes you believe that none of good intentions are within your reach. After that, giving up on your goals is almost certain, inevitably leading to old habits. Fortunately, however, with a dose of goodwill and some practical advice, this course can be reversed.

NEVER LOSE HEART

The first tip we want to give you is that you should never lose heart, let alone give up. Setting a goal and having it clearly in mind is certainly the most important step you have taken; not giving up at the first hurdle and looking straight to the finish line is the next logical step. The sense of guilt has a double function: on the one hand, it is advantageously useful because it discourages the repetition of bad behavior; on the other hand, it is a huge source of stress and can worsen our mood. The achievement of a goal is linked to the self-regulation mechanism that is polarized between two phenomena: the fear of failure and motivation.

DON’T SET UNATTAINABLE GOALS

Those who suffer too much from fear of failure, as well as those who tend to feel too guilty, tend to make generally inconsistent choices, setting goals that are sometimes impossible to achieve. Healthy motivation, on the other hand, focuses on reasonable challenges. Trying to lose twenty pounds in two weeks of regular fasting or running a marathon after a month of occasional training is a mission impossible. In addition to the criterion of rationality, the objectives are really achievable if they also adhere to the criterion of measurability: ergo, good intentions need intermediate steps, or at least a compass that helps us understand if we are going in the right direction or not. Furthermore, we must never forget that the goals.

Why is it so easy to make mistakes? To get the answer to this question, you should probably read entire volumes of neurophysiology. Among the many reasons why people fail to comply with their intentions, there are the so-called reward circuits, those that regulate the feelings of well-being that one feels after a pleasant or virtuous behavior. The reward circuits work at different times depending on the stimuli and the results: eating half a bar of chocolate when you don’t have to can give a feeling of well-being, that is, a reward, more immediate and short-term than that which would
come from a possible future weight loss.
It is therefore very important to work to strengthen the so-called delayed gratification, that is, the ability to resist the temptations that promise immediate rewards and wait for a more conspicuous and rewarding future reward.

CHANGE THE ACTION PLAN

Another idea, when all paths seem to have been taken and the temptation to give up our goals is strong, is to radically change your plan of action. In this regard, group training has proven to have incredible results in keeping our intentions strong and achieving our goals. Revolutionizing your diet, starting a new sport or hobby, and completely revising your exercise routine are great ways to get started.