Once again, it has been quite some time since I last posted. That is one thing that will change with the first of the year. I will be posting on a weekly basis, so be sure to check in often.
Since finishing school and coming home a lot has happened. I've started working with clients at Neighborhood Health and Fitness Center in my hometown of Ravena, NY. I've been studying for my CSCS, with the intention of taking it as a birthday present to myself by the end of January. And I've been contacting old friends from the area to help network myself as a strength coach and personal trainer.
As a side note, I am offering 2 free training sessions for anybody that would like to take a test run. I will only be offering this for the next few weeks, so take advantage soon!!
Now that you're caught up with what I'm doing, let's get into some New Year's Resolution talk.
Every year thousands of people set resolutions with all of the intention in the world of keeping them. Many sound like, "I'm going to get a gym membership and workout five days a week," or, "I'm going to stop drinking soda and eating junkfood and eat nothing but egg whites and chicken breast."
Although these may be great training and diet goals, they are simply unrealistic. And having unrealistic goals is the reason why you see so many people fail only months or even weeks into the new year.
So what should you do? Not make training and diet goals? Of course you should!
I wrote very early in this blog that if you want to change something, work on doing it for 6 months and it will become a habit. That may have been a bit long, so I want to decrease the time to about 3-4 months.
Work on changing one aspect of your training, diet or life for this amount of time and it will become a habit, says the author of Success Principles, Jack Canfield.
For example, my diet resolution is to drink a gallon of water a day. This equates to 128 ounces, which means I have to fill up my shaker cup just over 5 times a day.
Once I have done this for the next 3-4 months, I'll pick another "resolution" that will eventually become a healthy habit.
You can pick 3 or 4 resolutions for any aspect of your life to work on for the year, but work on only one at a time. This focus will make it much easier to change into a habit that should stick with you for the rest of your life.
Hope this helps you in your quest to lifelong fitness and health! Please leave any questions or comments below.
I can also be contacted for questions or inquiries about training at bobby.fisk@yahoo.com.
