Key Factors When Choosing Fitness & Weightloss Challenges

When choosing fitness or weight loss challenges,  it is important to keep these things in mind:

•Be Goldilocks. Pick something that is not too hard, not too easy. Make it juuuuust right.

•Offer rewards to yourself if you need to. The ego can be a bitch when it questions you: “Exactly why are we doing this stupid challenge, anyway?” Pacify yourself with real rewards. I promised myself small things along the way of small goals (like a new fancy schmancy water bottle for doing a few weeks worth of a water drinking challenge) and bigger rewards for bigger challenges (like a new tattoo when I reached a certain weight.)

•Get support. Find other people who are struggling at the same things you are. It is a great comfort to know you aren’t the only person around who can’t do a push-up.

•Don’t pick contradictory challenges. If you pick a running a marathon challenge and a building muscle mass challenge at the same time, you’re setting yourself up for failure.

•Listen carefully. Sit still. Shut up for a few minutes and ask yourself what challenges you’d really like to try. The answer will come to you. Then honor it.

Always keep striving. If you fail at a challenge, so what? Try again. That’s why is called a “challenge,” not a cakewalk.