For so many women, fitness can feel like a chore, just another thing on top of what we have to do. Especially if you’re busy and have so many much other things going on.
But the thing is…
Fitness success isn’t just about pushing yourself through the hard times and achieving milestones, it’s also about enjoying the process of achieving your goals.
Falling in love with making progress.
When you’re busy balancing work, family commitments, and everything else life throws at you, it’s difficult to find time for fitness, let alone enjoy the process.
Fitness can easily become one more thing that life throws at you, a chore, a burden, or a challenge.
But when you learn to love the process and enjoy the journey, something you view as a chore soon turns into something you’re excited for and want to do.
Which then creates more results for you.
Let’s explore what enjoying your journey actually looks like…
Focus On Progress, Not Perfection
A huge reason why women get frustrated with fitness is they’re too focused on achieving it all at once, to the best of their abilities, and when something slips up, we feel guilty, and dissatisfied.
Often enough, when we don’t see results quick enough, we get discouraged.
But it’s when you shift your mindset from obsessing over the end result and achieving it all, to celebrating the small wins along the way, and acknowledging your progress, you’ll enjoy the process more.
I promise you’ll find more enjoyment in your fitness journey when you prioritize making progress compared to last week in whatever way that looks like for YOU.
Celebrating small victories and acknowledging your progress will build lasting habits to build confidence and a sustainable fitness journey!
Making Your Journey Unique
This may be a shock to you but…
Fitness doesn’t have to be grueling and overwhelming to be effective, fitness can be fun when you make it more fun, you’re much more likely to stick with it.
I really recommend you find activities and exercises you genuinely enjoy, movements that bring you happiness and make you feel good!
This will look different for each woman, try out new things and take note of how they make you feel.
The more fun you have, the more you’ll look forward to it rather than forcing yourself through a fitness that you don’t enjoy and isn’t tailor-made.
Your fitness journey should be unique to you and built up in a way that you enjoy. So, find activities that light you up, and experiment with different workouts.
Fitness CAN be fun, playful, energizing, and exciting.
Remember WHY You Started
Some days you’ll lack motivation, on days like this it’s crucial to remind yourself why you began your fitness journey in the first place.
Get super specific on the reason and write it down somewhere.
Was it to be more confident? More Energized? Improve your well-being?
And think about what your life would look like once you achieved your reason for starting, this will motivate you and excite you moving forward with your journey.
Stay focused on your reason “why”, it will make your efforts feel more meaningful, especially when you remember why you’re doing this.
All the challenges will be worth it.
Enjoy ALL The Benefits
Your reason why isn’t the only reason you’re starting your fitness journey, it’s not just about losing weight, and looking a certain way.
Fitness is about becoming your best self and living better in all areas of your life from the inside out.
Fitness enhances all areas of your life and that should be celebrated, pay attention to how fitness makes you feel and where it’s improving your life.
The process will feel a lot more rewarding when you understand how beneficial fitness really is in your life, and you’ll then enjoy the process much more.
Conclusion
The journey is the reward!
Fitness isn’t about reaching a destination, because you’ll soon find that there isn’t one.
You can always become fitter, more confident, feel better, and become stronger.
It’s not about reaching a certain point, it’s about discovering what you’re fully capable of, then challenging yourself, and learning to enjoy the process along the way.
It’s time to start embracing fitness as something you get to do, not have to do, it’s a blessing to be able to move your body in a way that feels good.
Remember! Fitness isn’t just about working out; it’s about becoming the best version of yourself from the inside out.
Where you feel stronger, more energized, alive, empowered, and happier along the way.
Fall in love with the process, and the results will follow, in more ways than you could ever imagine!
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