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Why New Years Resolutioners Don’t Last


Its December of 2022 and gyms around the world are stockpiling on resources to prepare for the invasion that is about to ensue come the turn of the year. Ironically speaking, new years resolutioners’ in the gym are some of the worst type of resolutioners, because resolutions are supposed to be opportunities to change and erase health and fitness-related errors of the past.


Yet, as we know it lasts a few weeks or months at best. Here’s why people don’t stick their new year resolutions


No Plan


The gym is full of equipment designed to target different muscles, you need to know how to utilize as much of that as possible. Newcomers in the gym sometimes don’t know how to operate treadmills let alone lift dumbbells and pull cables. It can be overwhelming and leave people confused, they will end up looking at something online and trying to replicate it, only to feel a bit silly because they don’t know if they’re doing the exercise correctly.


This experience of walking around and not knowing what the hell is going on can put people off and de-motivate them from their goal as they’ve become less self-efficient and competent. The solution is to ask for guidance, do you have a friend or relative who knows what they’re doing? can you speak to an approachable personal trainer to show you a few things?


It Takes Sacrifices


Newcomers likely have a goal in mind, you want to look a certain way or lose a specific amount of weight, to achieve this you need to lose a considerable amount of built-up weight over many years of bad habit, or in some circumstances you want to gain muscle mass.


The more familiar you are with health and fitness, the easier this part becomes: the sacrifices you need to make. Think about it, you’ve spent years or even a lifetime of going in the opposite direction to where you’re now heading. It isn’t going to be easy to undo all of that, you will need patience, resilience, and determination.

There will be things regarding your lifestyle you will need to phase out and change completely, most common ones are foods which need cutting out, and your activity levels outside of the gym, and your social occasion drink-fest.


Newcomers should know that if it were easy everybody would be walking around with four-packs and to not be put off after a few months of moderately exercising and continuing to not worry about their diet, they’ve made little to no progress.


The solution is to remain consistent, and after each week or month try and do something you didn’t do before, but just keep at it.


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