Banish Excuses: How To Change Your Attitude Towards Working Out

Excuses are a huge part of why so many individuals hold themselves back from becoming fit, healthy, and achieving realistic fitness goals. Popular excuses include you don’t have enough money, not enough time, and you’re too tired or too busy. While these seem like mountains in the way of your fitness goal, they are not the problem, but rather your attitude is. So banish excuses and change your attitude, and your life, for the better. Now is the time to discover how you can say ‘NO’ to any excuse holding you back.

The Power Of Your Attitude

Although working out may appear to focus solely on physical strength, it also takes a great deal of mental strength to accomplish your fitness goals too. The attitude you project, whether it is positive or negative, can hugely impact your workout with the frequency and intensity of the exercises you decide to do. It’s incredibly easy to hear those defeatist words in your head telling you ‘I can never do it,’ or ‘it’s impossible, you may as well not even try,’ and to believe them. How do you change your negative attitude into a positive one? First and foremost, with anything in life, especially exercise, it takes a dash of dedication, a sprinkle of motivation, and an abundant amount of practice. If you don’t practice or train and begin at a lower level that is comfortable for you, how do you expect to improve and finally reach your fitness goals?

It starts with YOU. You need to look in the mirror and start saying to yourself ‘It’s time to change my attitude,’ and ‘I can do this, I got this.’ One easy suggestion to change your attitude is to keep a journal and document your progress every day, no matter how small or slow your progress is. You’ll see how you’re starting to change and therefore will want to keep going. It might be difficult at first, but it all comes down to a healthy attitude to at least start and keep going day after day. Sooner rather than later your ‘I can’t,’ will become ‘I can and I will,’ to I did.

Keep reading to find out the different reasons we sabotage ourselves and why.