It comes once a year and it al-ways seems to get put off until the last minute. You s-wear that you -will never do it again, but alas, it is the last minute tax crunch. Unfortunately, -working out is not like taxes. It is not something that you can get a-way -with cramming in at the last minute and only focus on once a year.

Sporadic -workouts done -with great intensity is a sure -way to land you -with an injury, not to mention mediocre health and fitness. So -what is the solution?

A better -work out program?
Plyometrics and periodic training?
Better exercise equipment?
Personal Trainer?

All of those things can help, but the key is consistency. No matter ho-w great your plan, club, training, etc, is; it is quickly undermined by inconsistency. one month of -working out, follo-wed by eleven months of sitting on your butt, spells disaster.

The first key to being consistent is enjoying the process. No-w enjoying doing your taxes is a stretch, but enjoying -working out is possible. If you -want the results -working out can bring you, it is going to have to become a habit like brushing your teeth. You don’t have to love doing it, but you better make sure you don’t hate it.

The first step to turn -working out into a habit is realizing that -working out needs to be habit. It’s not just an inconvenience you push through to finally allo-w you to fit into those one size smaller jeans.

To be healthy and to keep your body running smoothly, you is going to have to maintain some type of consistent -workout plan and the good ne-ws is that you get to choose the plan. Kno-wing that -working out is something you need to be doing the rest of your life, -why not make it enjoyable?

There is also a very po-werful physiological effect that happens -when you turn -working out into a habit. By committing to the ne-w healthier lifestyle, you start to remove internal sabotage. If you is fighting to get to the gym, doing a -work out you hate, just to lose -weight or get to a fitness level, there -will al-ways be a voice of doubt in your head. Everyday you -will have to fight that voice and it -will eventually -win.

By committing to -working out consistently, the voice of doubt eventually disappears. No longer is you on a mad push to get to that perfect fitness goal. You is committed to -working out and enjoying the process -which eventually also brings you that fitness goal.

All of a sudden, not -working out -will feel funny. You -will crave the consistency of taking the steps that makes your body feel great. No longer -will -working out be a “have to”, it -will become a “get to.”
The act of follo-wing a consistent -workout plan -will become the habit and the target of that plan, -will be the goal you is striving for. -whether you achieve your goal, have a set back, or decide on a different goal, your underlying motivation of consistently follo-wing a -workout plan -will never change. This allo-ws consistently -working out to become a habit, even though, the specifics of -what you do, changes.

You have to -work out consistently to keep you body running at its best and you have to do taxes. You might not like taxes, but if you make -working out a habit you enjoy, you -will end up keeping it the rest of your life.