It seems every year at this time the fitness world is flooded with the latest and greatest fitness products and programs. With the coming of a new year comes the perennial New Years Resolution. These resolutions are usually topped by the mantras to lose weight and get fit. The New Year to the fitness industry is what Christmas is to the clothing industry, the time to get back into the black. This presents the perfect “storm” of timing and opportunity for this industry to eagerly help answer all those New Year’s resolution makers with an influx of programs, products, pills, and devices.
This year is just like any before it and just in time for New Year’s resolutions and the pre-summer rush to look good are a whole slew of items to help make you look like a million bucks! This year unlike years past has brought two new in home workouts that are actually worth talking about. The first is a follow up to the best selling home workout program of all time- P90X called P90X2. The second new at home workout worth talking about is a box set DVD program called Les Mills PUMP. PUMP is modeled after the infinitely popular Les Mills Body Pump classes that up until recently have only been available in gyms as group fitness classes. Continue reading…
It happens to all of us, like it did me, one day we look down and see that we’re physically not who we want to be. We let ourselves go again. Yet with each passing day the only thing we do is think about how we should be doing something about it.
I used to be as guilty of inaction as anyone else. When you find yourself in that repeating pattern of inaction you might wonder if you’ll be able to break out of it, and if so, when?
I recall the days before I really started my effort to lose weight and how I would wonder what trigger would help me to break free and begin down the road of transforming my physical body into something I could be proud of and not be self-conscious of showing off. As those days would turn into weeks, then weeks into months, I found that I was not finding the motivation to make that big change for myself. It made me feel defeated and hopeless, and I really wondered if it was even worth it at all.
What I discover later on is that I was being incredibly negative. I filled my head with “So what” and “doesn’t matter”, when in fact it really did matter to me. I was simply being a bit immature and refusing to acknowledge that I was being lazy. I reinforced that laziness with negativity, even though deep inside, I really, really did want to do something about it.
Thankfully, I finally did break free, and after a few months of action I learned that I was only holding myself back. Of course, right? No one else was chaining me down, I just had to make that first move myself, for myself, and I’m glad that I did.
Since reaching the initial goals that I set for myself so long ago, I’m in maintenance mode and able to relax a little and not push myself so hard. It’s an awesome feeling to have reached my own personal goals and I want you to experience that same feeling, and you can if you really want it. Keep reading to find your own inspiration
