We are nearly three months into the new year... how are those fitness new year’s resolutions going? Come January 1st, many people set health and wellness goals with the best intentions. However, only 8% of people actually follow through on their resolutions. Once “real life” hits, motivation quickly diminishes and your fitness goals get pushed to the backburner––your demanding tech job keeps you at the office late or your social life takes over all of your free evenings.
While many things require your time and attention, your health should always be a priority. Exercising gives you more energy to work hard and keeps you feeling confident in your social circles.
So, how do you stay motivated to workout?
There are many ways to keep yourself accountable and stay motivated to accomplish your fitness goals all year long. Soon enough, rather than a fleeting new year’s resolution, health and wellness will become a lifestyle with fitness at the forefront. Here’s how to make it happen.
5 Tips to Stay Motivated to Workout
If you are struggling to find ways to stay motivated to workout, follow these 5 tips:
1. Find an Accountability Partner
You know you planned to go to the San Francisco open gym today, but nobody else does. So who is to keep you accountable if you decide to lounge on the couch all day instead?
While rest days are important and we encourage them, we also encourage you to have an accountability partner so that every day doesn’t turn into a rest day. By sharing your fitness goals with a trusted friend, they can help motivate you to do what it takes to achieve them, even when you don’t feel like it.
2. Use Fitness Apps
It is easier to accomplish your fitness goals when you track your progress. And when you track your progress, you stay motivated to see results. Whether you want to go old-school and use a physical fitness journal or track your progress on the go with a fitness app, doing so will help you see success (and keep you accountable for when you miss a workout).
There are a variety of top fitness apps available to meet your needs. You can also use Facebook and Instagram check-ins to keep you accountable, and “check-in” every time you go to the Custom Fit San Francisco open gym.
3. Find a Local Gym You Love
While home workouts may save you time and money, there is something more motivating about actually going to the gym. First, when you invest money in a gym membership, you are more likely to capitalize on that investment, (i.e. attend your training sessions) so your money doesn’t go to waste. Additionally, finding a local gym offers more than just a place to work out. It offers a community and additional services to help you achieve your fitness goals.
At Custom Fit, our members have access to our San Francisco open gym, our registered dietitians and certified holistic nutritionists, and our diverse team of San Francisco personal trainers. Whatever your goals, we want to help you reach them in every way possible.
4. Make Exercise Fun
Nobody wants to do something boring, especially when it is also challenging and tiring. While we can’t promise you won’t work hard or get tired, we can ensure you have a good time while training at our San Francisco open gym or with one of our certified personal trainers.
Other ways to make fitness fun include creating a playlist of the best workout songs, buying new fitness clothes and shoes that make you feel unstoppable, and making it a social event by working out with a friend or a certified San Francisco fitness trainer.
5. Hire a Personal Trainer
Speaking of exercising with a trainer, when you work with a personal trainer, you cross many of the other tips off your list. With a fitness trainer, you have an accountability partner, a gym, and you can even learn new motivational fitness songs to keep you pumped up throughout your entire workout.
At Custom Fit, a San Francisco personal training gym, we offer custom packages to help our clients stick to their fitness goals and exceed them. With personal sessions and join sessions available, you get the focused support you need or can have your accountability partner train with you.
Plus, we offer by-appointment access to our private studio so you can workout in the environment you know and love outside of your personal training session. Our goal is to provide you with the services and support you need to accomplish all of your health, wellness, and fitness goals for the long term.
Custom Fit Keeps You Motivated to Workout All Year Long
People decide to start their fitness journey for many reasons: to build confidence, increase energy, lose weight, sleep better, and more! Whatever your reason, we are here to help you stick to your fitness goals. With our San Francisco open gym, personal trainers, nutritionists, chiropractor, pilates instruction, and more, all your health needs can be met at Custom Fit San Francisco. Our clean, modern training studio is never crowded and is specifically designed to provide you with a high-quality fitness experience from start to finish. Find out more about training with Custom Fit today!