Why doesn’t anybody ever keep their New Year’s resolution? Maybe it has something to do with the fact that they don’t really want to, even from the beginning. If they did want to keep them, they would keep them. Are you one of those people? Did you tell yourself you were going to work on your muscle growth and then did nothing about it?

‘I really do want to get strong and fit, ‘ you say in protest. Sure you do. The trouble is, you don’t want to make yourself suffer for it. You don’t have to suffer for it. Working out should be and can be fun.

If you don’t like lifting weights, don’t force yourself. Find some sort of exercise that you actually look forward to. Then you’ll get fit quickly and easily.

If you always enjoyed swimming, get back in the pool. Just don’t ruin it by setting unrealistic goals for yourself. Instead of resolving to swim ten laps, just resolve to swim one. Get back in the water just for the joy of being in the water. When you swim one lap, you’ll probably want to swim two, but if you make yourself swim a large number of laps, you probably won’t be motivated to go to the pool regularly.

This may be a very different approach to fitness than you’ve heard about before, but it works for a lot of people. On the other hand, a lot of people never take up jogging, for instance, because they set their goals too high. Just jog for a few yards or as long as you feel like it at first. Then walk and jog again when you feel the urge. Before long, you’ll find that you really enjoy jogging.

Almost everybody loves to ride a bike and bicycles are a fantastic way to get fit. That doesn’t mean you have to go out and buy a top of the line Schwinn mountain bike, though. Wait till you’ve taken a few spins around the park on a rented bike. Keep it casual and before long, you’ll be speeding down a mountain track.

Don’t do what so many people do and go out and buy every dietary supplement there is. When you’re starting out, a balanced diet and perhaps an herbalifeline will be more than enough.

That’s quite a different approach to fitness than the furrowed brow and grim determination method, isn’t it? Think about it, though. Shouldn’t fitness be fun? You’ll find that it is fun and only becomes more fun the fitter you get. So don’t make a vow to get fit, just get out and enjoy yourself and fitness will come.

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