Often fitness success is quoted as being the art of discipline. Successful people understand that discipline is a gateway to the achievement of goals.
They learned how to use discipline in their lives to achieve their dreams. They create a set of good habits to help them see it through by leveraging the art of self-discipline.
Fitness is the discipline of showing up to class.
What we have noticed over the last 7 weeks is that our strength and stamina have improved and the proof was with this week’s deadlift.
Congratulations to all! The deadlift is a technically difficult exercise and over the weeks all of you have with conviction lifted your personal best and have felt empowered!
Crazy as it seems while we are together it doesn’t feel like we are exercising, the time goes quickly, and we are focused on improving the technique of regenerating our functional body.
These are the qualities of success that comes with the discipline of showing up. These qualities are of higher learning and not of the punishment to “fix” failed fitness.
Finding the discipline to exercise
One of the biggest problems people face is the lack of discipline and not necessarily the lack of time for exercise.
Focusing on finding the discipline for exercise is a matter of accepting that discipline is an illusion.
Considering that much of what we do on a daily basis is driven by habit, developing the right habits will help to instill the discipline for exercise into our lives.
The 5 essentials to forming happy fitness habits:
- Be grateful for your current health, beating yourself up for not exercising will only make it more difficult to reset a fitness habit.
- Take responsibility for your exercise and accept no one can exercise for you.
- Take time to make a commitment to exercise then see your commitment through; it builds character and self-esteem.
- Exercise first thing in the morning because there is less chance that something else will take priority.
- Repeat, repeat and repeat until exercise and living well is your way of life.
Everything in life comes at a cost whether it be financial, emotional or simply patience. Success comes when you hit a tipping point and begin to desire your goal more than you dread the cost of reaching it.
Reaching the tipping point of establishing exercise in your life is a struggle after that it’s a blissful reward paying dividends of a happy, active and engaged life.
Live well with fitness
Anna
Recent Comments