Staying on Track: Good, Better, Best!

• Fitness is not perfection, it's PROGRESSION!
  

Everyone begins the journey to healthy living from different beginning points. What is hard for me may be easy for you, and what's no-sweat for me may be a mountain for you.

Trying to move too quickly is a recipe for failure and frustration. It's not uncommon to circle the same loop a few times as we figure out a thing or two. The important thing is to keep progressing. If you are doing better today than you did yesterday or last week, don't sweat the small fluctuations in motivation.

You want to take what is good and make it better, and when you are ready, make better into best. What does that look like?

1. Changing choices,
2. Changing frequency
3. Planning for success.
   

For Nutrition: You're used to eating burgers and fries at fast food 3-5 days a week

Good: Choose one

• Eating out only 2 days
• Changing burger to grilled chicken first once a week, then twice, etc.
• Dropping the fries
  

Better: Choose 2 or more

Best: A salad with lite dressing

For exercise: Watching sports on tv is a close to exercise as you've been lately:

Good:

• Strolling 10 minutes at lunch
• Parking further out in the parking lot
  

Better:

• taking the stairs at work instead of the elevator
• walking briskly to where your are breathing deeply, multiple times a week
• Weight training a couple days a week
  

Best:

• 30-40 minutes of challenging cardio, 5 days a week
• Weight training intensely 3-5 times a week.
  

Palmetto Fitness Focus is here to help you determine where your beginning point is, and how to find good to better, and better to best choices in your life.

Kathleen Wood

This is part 6 of a 10 part series on Staying on Track- Weight Management Series