HOW TO BEAT THE SLUGGISH ATTITUDE OF UNREALIZED 'NEW YEAR, NEW ME' RESOLUTIONS
Nod your head shyly if you are guilty of the following New Year’s resolutions bad habits:
Mentally picturing your ideal December body on day one of the new year but never doing anything to make that a reality
Following a number of ‘fitness gurus’ on insta or pinterest or even twitter in hopes of picking up their workout regime, so you too can finesse the streets with your poppin’ booty
Aiming to improve your diet but you end up having so many ‘cheat days’ that your planned diet goes down south (literally everything settles on your hips)
Signing up for gym with the aim of working on your body goals but frizzling out as the weeks roll by because of a number of excuses like “I don’t have the time”, “work/school is really demanding right now”…
Yeah…
I’m certain we have all fallen trap to our lazy ways of not following through on our yearly ambitious body goals. And of course this leaves you hacked at the end of the year, when you’re standing in front of that mirror asking yourself where the days have gone.
Ill-discipline in follow-through is actually a multifaceted problem that cracks our aspirations from all aspects not just our body goals. The formal definition of this (for those of you who are interested in psychology or just like reading up on different fields) is called the intention-behaviour gap; which is the- disconnect between the intention to perform a particular behaviour and the enactment of such behaviour (Abel et.al, 2017). Worry not though, I shall not bore you with fancy terminology.
Okay, so now that we know that we have a problem with actualising our goals because we lack follow-through…how do we go about to fix it? That’s where action plans come into play! I know it sounds a bit bleh and you might even feel demotivated to make an action plan template, but I got you! I have attached a downloadable fitness goals action plan for you to fill in and decorate to your hearts content.
So here’s how this is gonna work, fill in the fields in the action plan detailing what your workout plan is going to be like for every week. At the bottom of the weekly action plan there’s a little table where you can fill in your weekly goals, like how many km you wanna run that week or squats you wanna do. If you have achieved your weekly goals you can fill ‘yes’ in the completed box. And if you have done more than you had planned to you can fill in how may extra km or squats you have done. Print and place this on your bathroom mirror or the fridge so that you are reminded daily of your weekly goals.
Trust me I know it’s easier said than done but my girl; think about the end goal when you make that first post after your transformation on some #yallwereneverreadyforthis #yasthatsme #newbodywhodis.
C’mon! Let’s get out of this annual slump of not being the best versions of ourselves that we can be.
xoxo
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