Mr. A. Making a habit of it

One of the things I hear a lot is that it’s though to go out and do sports after you get home from a long day of work / study and that getting off the couch is half the battle of working-out.

I too had a hard time leaving home to do a workout in the beginning and after a while it gets “easier” and it’s not really the exercise getting easier because the intensity just goes up as you get into better shape, but more so that it is just something you do. I firmly believe it’s all about making your workout a habit, like taking a shower I the morning, brushing your teeth, once you begin to look at it like a habit it’s a lot easier to try to turn it into a habit.

Here are a few tips

1. Planning: If you want to make something a habit, plan it out, every Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 6pm to 7pm I am going to…
2. Join a Team / Club or do it with a friend, If you don’t want to haggle with planning it yourself joining a team with scheduled training is great, if doing it with a friend it will raise the comitment level
3. For both 1-2 apply that it’s something you can put in a calendar and maintained as something you need to do and not plan other overlapping stuff
4. Keep on track, The beginning is always the hardest part the claim is usually that it takes 21-30 days to create a new habit so these are the days that are going to be though, and the mind will try to “distract” you with other tempting offers, here the schedule and your commitment to that schedule will help you through.

Once made into a habit, tying those running shoes, going to the gym, whatever training you fancy will be a lot easier!

But remember Breaking the habit is an easy as creating it, so after you established it you got to maintain a 3 week vacation without workout is enough to put you back to where you started “habit wise”