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How To Set Realistic Fitness Goals

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<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">Losing weight is a tough battle&period; It may be a battle that you&&num;8217&semi;ve won several times before&comma; but odds are&comma; you&&num;8217&semi;ve lost the battle the same amount of times&period; It can be hard to stay disciplined for more than a few weeks at a time&comma; and with all of the other priorities in life&comma; it can be hard to set aside enough time to really stay committed&period; But the truth is that maintaining your health is just a matter of setting realistic goals&period; So long as you keep your eye on the prize and pace yourself&comma; you can meet all of your fitness goals without killing yourself&period; It&&num;8217&semi;s just a matter of not being too hard on your body or your self esteem&period; Here are some tips and tricks on how to set realistic fitness goals&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;">&NewLine;<ol>&NewLine;<li style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><strong>Start small<&sol;strong>&period; One of the biggest mistakes that most people make when they try to get in shape is that they push themselves way too hard&comma; way too fast&period; If you do this&comma; you will be so wiped out from your first workout that you won&&num;8217&semi;t want to exercise for weeks&period; So be sure to take the amount of exercise that you&&num;8217&semi;re currently doing and just push yourself a bit harder than you normally do&period; This will be enough to get you excited and proud of yourself&comma; but not so tired that you feel too intimidated to get back to it&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><strong>Pace yourself<&sol;strong>&period; When you set goals for yourself&comma; you want to give yourself time to accomplish them&period; Think about it like paying off your student loans&period; It would nice to get it all over with as soon as possible&comma; but it&&num;8217&semi;s simply not possible&period; If you just do a little at a time you will get there eventually&period; If you&&num;8217&semi;re meeting your goals each week with ease&comma; you can always decide to increase your challenges faster than you had previously assumed&period; You just don&&num;8217&semi;t want to set them too high and then disappoint yourself&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><strong>Track your progress<&sol;strong>&period; You&&num;8217&semi;re going to want to set goals for each workout you do&period; If you&&num;8217&semi;re working out at Orangetheory Fitness&comma; you can set goals for the number of reps you do on each machine&comma; the number of miles you run on the treadmill&comma; or the number of pounds you press on the bench&period; Whatever those goals may be&comma; you want to write them down in a notebook and track your progress after each workout&period; This will give you a solid understanding of your progress over time&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<li style&equals;"text-align&colon; justify&semi;"><strong>Reward yourself<&sol;strong>&period; Feeling good and seeing results is a reward in itself&comma; but you want to give yourself incentives to meet your goals&period; If you can&&num;8217&semi;t kick your cravings for a hamburger&comma; tell yourself that you can have one hamburger each week if you meet all of your exercise goals&period; It doesn&&num;8217&semi;t matter how you reward yourself&comma; you just want to take whatever it is that you&&num;8217&semi;re worried about giving into and only allow yourself to indulge in it if you meet all of your other goals&period;<&sol;li>&NewLine;<&sol;ol>&NewLine;

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