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The Sooner You Start, The Sooner You'll See The Results

The sooner you begin training, the sooner you'll see the results you want. It's always easier to put it off, but once you start training you'll feel better about it. Even a small number of training sessions can make a huge difference and doing something is better than doing nothing. It’s hard to get yourself on track, especially when you’re out of the habit, but you can take baby steps: your first few training sessions don’t have to be all-out, just showing up will make a massive difference to your attitude as well as your waistline!

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Doing Nothing Is Easy, Taking Action Is Hard

Doing nothing is easy. But if you do nothing, you'll get nothing. It's difficult to get started sometimes, but if you do lever yourself off the couch you'll thank yourself down the road. And once you do begin, you'll probably find you had the energy all along! Especially when you’re in a rut, it can be hard to get yourself motivated to train, but the rewards will be well worth it. You can start small, with short, easy sessions until training becomes routine, before you start trying to do long or strenuous sessions. Taking the first step – showing up to the gym or the park – is the hardest part!

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Perfect Conditions Don't Exist - There Will Always Be Obstacles

There will never be the perfect conditions to train in. You'll always be to tired, or too busy, and the weather will never be right. There will always be something else you could, or should, be doing. If you don't make it a priority, it will always slip down the to-do list until it disappears altogether. That means prioritizing training until it just becomes something you do without needing to plan it. Try setting aside certain times during the week in advance, and let your friends and family know you’ll be unavailable during those times. Then you’ll be more likely to stick to your guns and they’ll be more likely to let you!

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I’m Too Tired To Train Today - I'll Leave It Until Tomorrow

We’ve all been there: after work, or during a busy day with the family, you have to find not just the time, but the motivation to exercise. It's hard to come in after a long day at work and want to train. It's much easier to put your feet up, and we all know the temptation. If you do manage to make yourself train, though, you'll find that you're gradually less and less tired. And tomorrow will be no easier than today. If you set times and stick to them it will be hard at first, but before too long it will just be something you do, without thinking too much about it.

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An Endorphin Rush Can Get You Through A Training Session - Or To One!

After you've been exercising for about twenty minutes, you'll begin to feel the endorphins kick in. Your body's natural opiates will put you on a big high that can become addictive - in a good way! You'll find yourself looking forward to training rather than finding it a chore. The 'feel-good' effect, also known to some as 'runners' high,' is your body's way of rewarding you for your efforts on its behalf. At the time you train it can be a great feeling, but remembering how good it feels while you're actually doing it can be a great way to keep yourself coming back. After all, it's hard to focus on long-term goals if the short term stuff is too hard. Find something that gives you that 'feel-good' rush and you'll be back for more!

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You Don't Have Time: You Have to Make Time!

It’s sometimes hard to find the time to train. With work and family pressures, it can be difficult to find the time for anything! But it comes down to planning and commitment. You have to pick out your times in advance and make time for your training or you’ll never have the time to train. Try a weekly plan, and tell everyone about it. That way you’re more likely to stick to it and other people are more likely to let you have your ‘me time’. They might even turn out to be more supportive than you’d expected: you could meet a training buddy this way!

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Every Workout Makes A Difference And It All Adds Up

Every training session makes a difference. There are always breakthrough ones, and ones where you slip back and don't feel like you're making progress. And there are always ones that you just want to skip. But if you make sure you don't, at least at first, you'll find that you start to see the changes you want. It's not like every session changes you: it's more like the changes you want to see add up out of every session you do. It's about the last six weeks and the last six months, not the last session you did, but those six weeks are made of all the sessions you didn't skip, even though you felt like it.

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Keep Your Eyes On The Prize Every Step of the Way

Set your goals and remember them often. Make a plan for every week, every month, and every year as steps on your road to your goal. You might have to change the plan as you get into it, but having a plan means you can remind yourself why it matters so much that you lost a pound a week for the last three weeks, even though you can barely see the change. It ties your day-to-day into the longer story of your own success. Talk to people about them too. Think of every training session as a single step on the road to your goals and tell people how well you're doing.

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Don't Give In To Excuses And Procrastinations: Show Up

We can all always find a reason not to do something hard. But if it's what we should be doing, we have to ignore that reason. Excuses will be never ending, and every day will be a day you just can't train, for whatever reason. You'll become one of those people who does everything tomorrow - but tomorrow never comes! Instead, what comes is more excuses. It is difficult, but by following the strategies laid out here - make a plan, take small steps to start off, enlist support from others, remember your goal - you can start to make the difference you want to see in your own life.

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If You Start On Time, Your Future Self Will Thank You

We think that there’s no cure for certain illnesses and in a sense we’re right; in another sense, the cure for heart disease is to go back forty years and put down the cheeseburger. Your future self will thank you if you get started as soon as possible. The best way I’ve ever heard this idea expressed was that, even if your long-term goals are daunting and seem far off, even if they might take two years, well, you were planning on getting two years older anyway, weren’t you? You’ll thank yourself down the line if you spend the time to look after yourself.