Lifestyle & Wellness

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“How do you stay focused on your workouts when you have so much going on? Especially when you start to have issues or additional stress with work, relationships, or life changes. What can you do to stay focused and motivated?”

I’m writing this blog to give you 3 simple strategies you can combine to make sure you stick to your workouts, stay motivated, and get the results you want. It starts with a story.

In Week 6 we have a very simple task – evaluate and revise your plan. In Week 5 we discussed the importance of tracking your progress in the form of a wellness log. You’ll recall that your wellness log is a written journal that tracks your wellness habits in our 4 critical wellness areas – exercise, diet, sleep, and stress management. One of our goals in doing so is to understand ourselves, so we can make the necessary changes to improve. We can change that which we can understand, and tracking your progress allows you to understand yourself.

Welcome to Week 4 of Be The Better You. In Week 3, we focused on the the importance of making a plan, as well as the components involved in creating an effective plan. This week, I’m going to talk about the specifics of making an effective fitness plan.

If you completed Week 2‘s assignment, you spent a lot of time developing and making your goal specific. This week builds off of that lesson by teaching you how to create an effective workout plan to succeed that goal, focusing on the specifics of what to include in your plan, setting standards for yourself, and assignment to pull it all