The Beginning of the Beginning

     The biggest step to achieving your fitness goals is simple. It is the easiest.  It just takes a certain mind set. The key?
Start small and specific, then slowly add changes to your life until it becomes a big change.
What does that mean? Well, let me start with the basics. Look at figure 1.1. It show a basic breakdown on the things that need to be focused on to live a fairly healthy lifestyle. Whoa. That’s kind of overwhelming to think about, if you haven’t been living healthy at the moment. It would be hard to alter all of these factors at once and be successful.

Let’s take on section at a time and divide it up. In figure 1.2, I’ve taken the section and split them into certain ways someone may change their life for the best, in order to be healthy. These may not apply to you, but it is now your job to do the same and brainstorm. Maybe you don’t drink coffee, but you may smoke. Or you may not drink soda, but drink more alcohol. The idea is to split the chart up so it applies to you. If you have trouble thinking of ways you could be healthier, then you should consult your doctor or a personal trainer to give you some ideas.

 

Once you’ve divided up the chart into at least 12 sections (the more the better), it’s not time to take a deep breath and pick one of these changes to start the next day. We will pick only one and we will do this for one week. Let’s assume I choose, “No soda”, for one week I will stay away from soda. It’s a small, feasible change. You can do this. After one or two weeks, we now can successful apply figure 2.1 to our lives. We’ve changed this portion of our lives, and now achieved the first step to success.

For the next week, we will attempt to retain what we achieved in week one, along with one more of our sections. This will continue and we will periodically add one section every week, or second week (depending on how challenging you think the section will be.

 

By one month, we may have achieved figure 2.2, and made some serious drastic changes to your lives for the better.

After a few months, you might be on track for figure 2.3, and that’s just amazing. Those are some serious health choices and changes.

This method is extremely easy to take track of and because of it’s “many baby steps” approach it will definitely be achievable by anyone. The biggest benefit, it’s maintainable and will change your life.
You can easily lose weight, add some longevity or just feel better in no time. Give it a try.

Ty Pritchard