New year, new me… Or not?

No matter what your goals are this new year, whether they’re fitness, personal, professional, etc…. let’s be honest, you can’t meet your new year fitness goals and health objectives without spending the time, energy and effort to get where you want to be. Remember, an idea without execution is just that, an idea. You gotta plan for your success, then you have to do the work to make it happen.

The thing is it can be challenging, often discouraging as you hit roadblocks (which tend to be unavoidable), and all together tiring getting you where you want to be, but once you’ve accomplished said goal(s) with your specific measurements and indicators, it’s so awesome and rewarding! It’s worth it.

Knowing that, the time to get started is now friends, whether it’s January or June. While I have a very “why wait until Monday,” perspective on things, I do think the New Year is a good time to reassess and reset your goals and start to game plan what it’ll take to accomplish them, especially knowing that most people will lose those resolutions before 30 days, no matter what they are.

The key to sticking to your goals though, is to create and plan the RIGHT goals. What does that mean? Well, here are some New Year Health Tips that can be used year round for setting those goals and sticking to them:

• Set a goal that fits you personally. Remember that not all goals work for everyone and be realistic with yourself.

• Be Accountable. Find an accountability buddy or a group of people that will keep you accountable. Even if they don’t share the exact same goal, just find an opportunity to share a goal setting mentality. Or just write down your goal. That by itself will help keep you accountable.

• Plan for your success. If your goal is to lose 20 pounds in 2018 then you gotta do the math to figure out what it is going to take to get there. That’s about 3 to 4 pounds per month, so let’s say a pound a week. Well, that means four 45 minute workouts a week, plus a calorie deficit of 800 kCals per month, which is 200 per week. Now ya know what you have to do. Very reasonable if you’re consistent! Just calculate your Checkpoints by taking the overall long-term goal and breaking it down, so it’s not daunting.

• Avoid Snowball Syndrome. Snowballs are cold and round, is that what you want to be?! Of course not, so don’t succumb to the Snowball effect. “Oh, I blew it and ate a bag of Oreos so it’s over now, I’m done.” Umm, no, you’re not. Just fix it and get in a few extra workouts for the next 2 weeks so handle what you did. It’s super easy once you get off-track to search for another starting point that never comes. Bring it back with that “Why wait until Monday?” attitude.

Be stronger than excuses.

~Cat Kom

Founder of Studio SWEAT onDemand