Fitness Tip: Never Underestimate the Power of the Calendar in Weight Loss! - By: Kieth Overbaugh

No matter what your fitness goals are or what workout program you are using, a standard wall calendar can be a beneficial tool for attaining your weight loss or fitness goals. It works with weight lifting, walking, home fitness programs, dieting, and neighborhood gym workouts. Don’t underestimate the motivational power of a calendar.

The calendar can provide you a quick visual record of your progress and keep you on track. It's going to make you feel guilty when you miss your workout, and make you feel proud when you see it fill up with marked completions. The weight scale is often slow to report and might produce varied results throughout the day as a result of natural fluctuations in weight.

Be certain your work outs are set up in stages. You should already understand that doing the same movements over and over again is not the most beneficial way to obtain results. Take that a step further and put up a calendar near your training area, or if you go out to exercise, try placing it close to where you might keep your gym bag or running shoes.

For each stage in your workout, assign a specific number of days for that stage. Each of your workout stages should be marked on your calendar. If you have a 60 day workout stage, mark it out as day 1 through day 60, and place a small notation of what your work out for each day will be. As you progress through the stage, place a big X on the accomplished workout day!

This will help keep you motivated in a couple of ways. First, you will discover that any days that you skip and are not marked with an X will bug the heck out of you and you will try harder to get each day’s training completed. Second, it offers you a countdown, or visible progress report that shows you are getting closer each day to completing this phase and it is a fantastic feeling.

A number of the better known home fitness programs offered by Team Beachbody make use of this sort of calendar countdown in many of their effective programs. With these programs you get a calendar that counts out a 60 day program or a 90 day program or whatever the case may be, and you receive directions on which workout to accomplish each day.

Hang in there with your routine, whatever it may be, get healthy, and share your success to help motivate others to get healthy too!

About the Author

As an Independent Team Beachbody Coach, Jim Ford specializes in helping people discover the most effective available home fitness programs. He can also show you how to save money, or even generate money as you get into the best shape of your life by taking advantage of the coach opportunity.

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